The Economics of Socialism: Principles Governing the Operation of the Centrally Planned Economies in the USSR and Eastern Europe Under the New System. By J. Wilcsynski. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1970. 233 pp. $8.95. - Class Inequality and Political Order: Social Stratification in Capitalist and Communist Societies. By Frank Parkin. New York and Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1971. 205 pp. $7.00, cloth. $2.95, paper.

Slavic Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 691-693
Author(s):  
Jan S. Prybyla
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Class Inequality ◽  
New System

Ethnic Stratification and Social Unrest in Contemporary Eastern Europe and America1

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Robert F. Hill ◽  
Howard F. Stein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Red Power ◽  
Ethnic Stratification

The crucial question in the analysis of social unrest is why it occurs at a particular moment in history. Whether one refers to the new militant movements in the United States (“Black Power,” “Red Power,” “Ethnic Power”), Ukrainian nationalism in the Soviet Ukraine, Great Russian revitalization, or the recent World Slovak Congress held in New York; it is clear that traditional systems of social stratification in the United States and Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe are now being severely strained. As Shibutani and Kwan have emphasized, in stable stratified societies the inequality of prerogatives goes unquestioned, even by the subjugated who willingly support it. Only in periods of instability is the differential access to opportunity questioned. And dissatisfaction arises only when alternatives to the status quo are perceived. This insight is the core of the “theory of relative deprivation.”

Review: Islam and politics in Iranian Kurdistan at a time of revolution: the life of Ahmad Moftizadeh

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-87
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Order ◽  
The Other ◽  
Islam And Politics ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Revolutionary Regime

Ali Ezzatyar, The Last Mufti of Iranian Kurdistan: Ethnic and Religious Implications in the Greater Middle East. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xv + 246 pp., (ISBN 978-1-137-56525-9 hardback).For a brief period in 1979, when the Kurds had begun confronting Iran’s new Islamic revolutionary regime and were voicing demands for autonomy and cultural rights, Ahmad Moftizadeh was one of the most powerful men in Iranian Kurdistan. He was the only Kurdish leader who shared the new regime’s conviction that a just social and political order could be established on the basis of Islamic principles. The other Kurdish movements were firmly secular, even though many of their supporters were personally pious Muslims.

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