Eastern Europe

Eastern Europe

Author: Olga A. Narkiewicz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-10-30

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1003807666

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First Published in 1986 Eastern Europe 1968-1984 has been written in response to renewed interest in Eastern European events in the 60s and 70s. In writing this work the author concentrated on changes in the system in the post-Stalinist period, which were intended to reduce the political, economic, and social contradictions but have often accentuated them instead. The book brings themes like balance of power; Eastern Europe’s new economics; patterns of normalization; the CMEA’s economy and world recession; perception of Eastern Europe in the West; and East-West German rapprochement. This is an important read for students and researchers of East European Politics, East European history and International Relations.


Hungary

Hungary

Author: Nigel Swain

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1992-06-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780860915690

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Covers the period from the 1940s to the present.


The Statesman's Year-Book 1969-70

The Statesman's Year-Book 1969-70

Author: S. Steinberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages: 1575

ISBN-13: 0230270980

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.


Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary

Technology and the Environment in State-Socialist Hungary

Author: Viktor Pál

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-15

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 3319638327

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This book explains how and why the state-socialist regime in Hungary used technology and propaganda to foster industrialization and the conservation of natural resources simultaneously. Further, this book explains why this process was ultimately a failure. By exploring the environmental pre-history of communist Hungary before analyzing the economic development of the Kádár regime, Pál investigates how economic and environmental policies and technology transfer were negotiated between the official communist ideology and the global economic reality of capitalist markets. Pál argues that the modernization project of the Kádár regime (1956–1990) facilitated ecological consciousness – at both an individual and societal level – which provoked great social unrest when positive environmental impact was not achieved. Today, global issues of climate change, urban pollution, resource depletion, and overpopulation transcend political systems, but economic and environmental discourses varied greatly in the twentieth century. This volume is important reading for all those interested in economic and environmental history, as well as political science.