Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience

by Claus Offe

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In recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. This process has brought with it common problems experienced on different levels: economic crisis, growing social insecurity and injustice, ethnic conflicts and civil strife. In addition, post-communist societies have encountered political, legal and social difficulties in coming to term with their own past. In this book, Claus Offe provides a lucid and insightful show more account of this complex process of transformation. In a wide-ranging discussion he analyses the problems brought about by the creation of new political and economic orders in the countries of central and eastern Europe, and argues that the way forward is to build and consolidate a new democratic polity, a new economy, and a new conception of nationhood capable of absorbing ethnic conflict. He examines the comparatively straightforward - but nonetheless extremely rocky - 'special path' to capitalism followed by the former German Democratic Republic, and analyzes the effects which the collapse of communism has had on western democracies. Varieties of Transition will be welcomed by students and researchers in a wide range of disciplines including politics, sociology, European Studies, German Studies and modern history. show less

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Claus Offe
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Claus Offe is a Professor Emeritus of Political Sociology at both the Humboldt University and the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

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Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience

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Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Philosophy, Sociology
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306.0947 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Social history Europe Eastern Europe And Russia
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HN380.7 .A8 .O38 — Social sciences Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform Social history and conditions. Social problems. By region or country
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