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Path Dependence and the Inception of the Polish "Negotiated Revolution" of 1989

This study puts forward a frame of analysis of the Polish “negotiated revolution” of 1989, which initiated the revolutionary regime changes that took place in East- Central Europe (ECE) that year. The 1989 events in ECE had three particular features: they were non-utopian; they were not carried out in the name of a particular class; and they were non-violent (with the conspicuous exception of Romania). Considering these specific aspects, this author contends that the 1989 events can be termed “postmodern revolutions.” In order to explain the Polish “negotiated revolution” of 1989, the present study employs an explanatory model previously applied to the bloody revolution of December 1989 in Romania, which takes into consideration both the domestic developments and the entangled histories of the Soviet bloc countries over the period 1945–89, as well as the issue of recent path dependence. The main assumption is that the collapse of communist rule in Poland and in the other five communist countries which experienced a regime change in 1989 was provoked by a complex interplay of structural, conjunctural and nation-specific factors.

ISSN
1582-2486
Umfang
Seite(n): 103-118
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 16(2)

Thema
Politikwissenschaft
Geschichte
allgemeine Geschichte
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Polen
Revolution
politischer Wandel
Pfadabhängigkeit
Kommunismus
politische Kultur

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Petrescu, Dragoş
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wann)
2014

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-411754
Rechteinformation
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

Beteiligte

  • Petrescu, Dragoş

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  • 2014

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