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Michael D. Kennedy
Series: Contradictions
Volume: 15
Copyright Date: 2002
Edition: NED - New edition
Published
by: University of Minnesota Press
Pages: 384
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttt2m6
Book Description:
“Transition” is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedy’s analysis, a culture in its own right-with its own contentions, repressions, and unrealized potentials. By elaborating transition as a culture of power and viewing it in its complex relation to emancipation, nationalism, and war, Kennedy’s book clarifies the transformations of postcommunism as well as, more generally, the ways in which culture articulates social change. Contradictions Series, volume 15
eISBN: 978-0-8166-9313-9
Subjects: Anthropology