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The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

Case Studies from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine Volume I

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Editors:
  1. Melanie Tatur
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  • Regional Policy in Eastern Europe

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-14
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  2. Introduction: Conceptualising the Analysis of “Making Regions” in Post-socialist Europe

    • Melanie Tatur
    Pages 15-47

  3. Transformation Regimes and Legal Frameworks for Local and Regional Development Policy in Poland and Hungary

    • Melanie Tatur, Andrzej Bukowski
    Pages 49-77

  4. Małopolska: Making Tradition Work

    • Andrzej Bukowski
    Pages 79-181

  5. Hajdú-Bihar Case Study: Corporatist “Partnership” or Elitist Clientelism?

    • Melanie Tatur
    Pages 183-219

  6. Sector Versus Region, Homogeneity Versus Diversity. The Silesian-Dąbrowa Coal and Steel District in the Context of Linked Areas

    • Adrian Cybula
    Pages 221-324

  7. Erratum

    • Enikö Baga, Claudia Sabić, Andrzej Bukowski, Melanie Tatur, Adrian Cybula, Kerstin Zimmer
    Pages 344-344

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 325-343
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About this book

1 Research Idea: History and Regional Diversity Post-socialist societies in Europe can be assigned to three "historical regions" (Sziicz 1990) corresponding to their path of historical development. (1) The "East" was shaped by the patrimonial Muscovite state (Pipes 1977) and an estate agriculture with archaic structures at its base (Shanin 1985). The "westernisation" of Russia that began with Peter I exposed the country to western knowledge and education. However, the modernisation of state and society remained limited. The "rationalisation" of the state (Lotman 1997) systematised the administrative structure but did not change the core rules of power, that is to say autocracy and patrimonial bureaucracy. At the same time "modernising" reforms built the state on the basis of feudal eco­ nomic relations. It thus blocked the expansion of both universalistic control and market mechanisms. The commodification of production and of labour th was launched as late as the last third of the 19 century. It was stopped by the socialist revolution. The communist elites made use of western technology and science, as well as the institutional and cultural resources of traditional Russia, in order to stabilise their rule and to industrialise the country. The violent breaks of War Communism and Stalinist mobilisation dismantled the traditional institutions of the state, the nobility, the intelligentsia, and peasant society.

About the authors

Prof. Dr. Melanie Tatur, Fachbereich Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Making of Regions in Post-Socialist Europe — the Impact of Culture, Economic Structure and Institutions

  • Book Subtitle: Case Studies from Poland, Hungary, Romania and Ukraine Volume I

  • Editors: Melanie Tatur

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-80923-0

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften/GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8100-3813-5Published: 29 April 2004

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-322-80923-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 343

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Political Science, Comparative Politics

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