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Social Theory And The Crisis Of State Socialism |
Larry Ray, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Lancaster, UK
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| 1996 |
304 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 688 5 |
£73.00 |
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‘This is an ambitious, informative and important book. . . . I recommend this book warmly’
– Ivan Szelenyi, Slavonic Review
The collapse of communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union requires a major rethink of many sociological theories of social integration and change.
Drawing on a wide range of social theory, Social Theory and the Crisis of State Socialism offers a comparative analysis of the democratic revolutions, combining historical understanding with accounts of the crisis of communism in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Russia. Larry Ray identifies contradictions within Soviet societies, developing a theory of crisis management that accounts both for the survival of the system over several decades and for its eventual failure.
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Contents: Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Social Theory and Socialism 2. State Theory, Modernity and Differentiation 3. State Socialism and Modernity 4. Mode of Domination and Legitimacy 5. Systemic Crises in State Socialism 6. The Legal Revolution 7. The Rectifying Revolutions? 8. Civil Society and Citizenship in the New Europe 9. Globalization and Nationalism Index
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