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Revolution, Democratic Transition and Disillusionment - 9780719076985

Un libro in lingua di Pusca Anca Mihaela edito da Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

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This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on Romania's transition from communism to capitalism. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of materials and texts, it argues that transition and democratization studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift from one ideological framework to another. The author provides alternative approaches to otherwise classical sites of examination of social change - such as revolutions and the emergence of civil society - and proposes a number of new possible sites by analyzing the politics of self-reflection, the element of shock inherent in any transition and the role of visual narratives in negotiating change.
The chapters are inspired by unique interviews and discussions with the leaders of the Timisoara Revolution, the Group for Social Dialogue (the first civil society organization in post-communist Romania), the leading author of the Presidential Report Analyzing the Communist Dictatorship in Romania and an innovative group of photographers tracing the Romanian transition through images.
This concise and accessible book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of central and East European studies, international studies, democratization studies, sociology and cultural studies.

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