Transformations of large housing estates in Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of communism

2015 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 621-648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Szafrańska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Large Housing Estates ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Housing Estates

scholarly journals Between Individual Memory and Social Memory. What Do People in Poland Remember About 1989?

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aneta Ostaszewska
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Individual Memory ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

30 years have passed since the events of 1989 that led to the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the paper the themes of social memory of political transformation in Poland in 1989 are discussed. The content of online statements collected from popular Polish news portals are analysed. When asking the question what events and experiences do Poles bring back when they think of 1989, I am interested in the relationship between the individual (biographical) memory and collective memory – the socially reconstructed knowledge of the past.

What Have We Learned from the Collapse of Communism?

2015 ◽  
pp. 642-677
Author(s):  
Olga Nicoara ◽  
Peter Boettke
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Communist Countries

Following the collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe (1989) and the Soviet Union (1991), the field of comparative political economy has undergone multiple stocktakings and revisions. In the former communist countries, Marxist economics was abandoned in favor of neoclassical economics, which dominated the profession in the West. But was neoclassical theory equipped to suggest adequate institutional arrangements in support of the transformations to capitalism in the former centrally planned economies of central and eastern Europe (C and EE) and the former Soviet Union (FSU)? What have economists working in the field of comparative political economy learned from the collapse of communism and the experience of transition so far? This chapter surveys the thoughts of leading transition scholars and assesses the new lessons learned in comparative transitional political economy.

Roma of the Former Yugoslavia*

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Latham
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Sanctions ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collapse Of Communism

Throughout Central and Eastern Europe, the collapse of communism has led to an unleashing of ethnic strife and a worsening of the economic conditions of the Roma, who by any measurement occupy the lowest rung of the social ladder. In the former Yugoslavia, the situation has been aggravated enormously by war, rampant nationalism, forced emigration, ethnic cleansing, and economic sanctions. The nearly four-year war in the region took a heavy toll on all the successor states except Slovenia.

scholarly journals The changes in social and demographic structure of large housing estates in post-socialist Poland and their main determinants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Szafrańska
Keyword(s):  
Housing Stock ◽  
Demographic Structure ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Housing Estates ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Main Determinants ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Housing Estates ◽  
Negative Phenomena ◽  
Key Questions

Large pre-fabricated housing estates were erected all over Europe, however the political and ideological factors conspired to ensure that they developed on the largest scale in communist countries. Today, they continue to provide some 30–40% of the housing stock in this part of Europe. The present paper discusses the transformations of large housing estates in Poland 25 years after of the collapse of communism. The main purpose of the study was to identify the social and demographic changes in Polish large housing estates and to clarify the crucial factors underpinning them. The key questions were: (1) How the social and demographic structures of the large housing estates in Poland have changed since the collapse of communism? (2) What are the main determinants of these processes? (3) Whether the processes occurring in large housing estates reproduce the negative phenomena of social degradation observed in many Western European countries? The study is based on a review of the available literature concerning transformations of large housing estates in several of the large Polish cities and the results of the author’s own investigations conducted within Łódź – one of the largest cities in the country.

The Roma in Post-Communist Eastern Europe: Questions of Ethnic Conflict and Ethnic Peace

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-552 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Crowe
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Berlin Wall ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
Lengthy Process

The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe promised bold opportunities for the various ethnic groups populating that vast, diverse region. Yet if history had any lessons to teach these groups it was that democracy, or at least the political systems that emerged in the midst of the rubble of the Berlin Wall between 1989 and 1991, was no guarantor of whatever idealized rights the region's ethnic groups hoped would come in the wake of the collapse of the communist dictatorships that had dominated these parts of Europe for decades. Communism, had, in many instances, done nothing more than stifle the festering ethnic tensions that had exploded in the nineteenth century and short-circuited the complex, lengthy process of resolving these conflicts. Consequently, for those knowledgeable about the essence of these conflicts, it should have come as no surprise that Yugoslavia, for example, was torn asunder by ethnic violence so terrifying that it took the intervention of the Western world's great powers to end the most violent aspects of these wars of ethnicity.

scholarly journals The Curious Chasidic Pilgrimage to Lelov, Poland

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-82
Author(s):  
Lucia Morawska
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Orthodox Jews ◽  
Jewish Tradition ◽  
Collapse Of Communism ◽  
The Cold War

Abstract This paper discusses a Chasidic pilgrimage movement focused on Lelov, which lies south of Cracow. Pilgrimage has always been a major part of Jewish tradition, but for many years during the Cold War it was possible only for a devoted few to return to Poland. With the collapse of Communism, however, pilgrimage sites in Central and Eastern Europe have become much more accessible and consequently ultra-orthodox Jews have created a ‘return movement’.

scholarly journals Būsto politika skirtinguose gerovės modeliuose

2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-320
Author(s):  
Jolanta Aidukaitė
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Housing Tenure ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Policy Model ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Welfare State Regimes ◽  
Housing Estates

Santrauka. Straipsnis siekia ištirti būsto politiką skirtinguose gerovės valstybės modeliuose, įtraukiant į būsto modelių klasifikaciją ir naująsias Europos Sąjungos šalis iš Vidurio ir Rytų Europos. Gilesnei ana­lizei pasirenkamos šešios šalys, geriausiai atstovaujančios idealius gerovės valstybės modelius: Švedija – so­cialdemokratinį, Vokietija – konservatyvųjį-korporatyvinį, Jungtinė Karalystė – liberalųjį, Ispanija – Pi­etų Europos, Čekija ir Estija – pokomunistinį. Analizė atskleidė, kad nepaisant panašių tendencijų būsto liberalizavimo link, šalys iki šiol išlaiko tik joms būdingus bruožus, o konceptualūs būsto politikos modeliai, atitinkantys gerovės valstybės modelius, iki šiol atspindi realias juos atstovaujančių šalių būsto politikos sistemas. Pagrindiniai žodžiai: būsto politika, gerovės valstybė, būsto politikos modeliai, dekomodifikacija, Vi­durio ir Rytų Europa Key words: housing policy, welfare state, housing policy models, de-commodification, Central and Eastern Europe. ABSTRACT HOUSING POLICY IN DIFFERENCE WELFARE STATE REGIMES This article seeks to explore housing policy in different welfare state regimes. It incorporates into the analysis of housing policy and welfare state regimes some new EU countries from Central and Eastern Europe. Six countries are chosen, which represent most the ideal typical models of the welfare state, for deeper analysis: Sweden - social-democratic, Germany - conservative-corporatist, the United Kingdom - liberal, Spain – Southern European, the Czech Republic and Estonia - post-communist. The findings of this paper show that, despite similar trends towards the liberalization in the housing policy field, the countries analysed in this study still hold their own specific features, which coincide with the main features of the conceptual models of the housing policy and welfare state regimes. The post-communist housing policy model holds the following characteristics: the private ownership dominates the housing tenure; the market regulates the housing sector, state’s regulation is negligible; construction is carried by the large private companies; outdated and worn-out housing estates, built during the period of socialism, require complete renovation or demolition. Pastaba. Straipsnis parengtas pagal Lietuvos mokslo tarybos finansuojamą projektą Būsto politika Li­etuvoje: raida, problemos ir pilietinės iniciatyvos. Projekto numeris LMT SIN-18/2012.

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