
Published online:
18 August 2022
Published in print:
12 April 2021
Online ISBN:
9780197551899
Print ISBN:
9780197539347
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The Prague Spring: The End of Reformism The Prague Spring: The End of Reformism
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East-Central Europe in the 1970s and 1980s: Consumerism and Crisis East-Central Europe in the 1970s and 1980s: Consumerism and Crisis
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Poland: A New Type of Opposition Emerges Poland: A New Type of Opposition Emerges
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Poland in the Early 1980s: The Balance of Power between Regime and Opposition Shifts Poland in the Early 1980s: The Balance of Power between Regime and Opposition Shifts
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The Collapse Begins The Collapse Begins
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Conclusions Conclusions
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Chapter
17 The Transition to Democracy in East-Central Europe
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347–375
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Published:April 2021
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Berman, Sheri, 'The Transition to Democracy in East-Central Europe', Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (New York , 2021; online edn, Oxford Academic, 18 Aug. 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197539347.003.0017, accessed 14 May 2025.
Abstract
Chapter 17 examines the transition to democracy in East-Central Europe. It asks why attempts at political liberalization failed in East-Central Europe in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but democratization succeeded in 1989. It also investigates why, when democratization occurred, it was peaceful and negotiated in some East-Central European countries but accompanied by mass protests and elite intransigence in others. And finally, it considers how legacies of communism continue to influence the region's political development today.
Keywords:
communism, procedural vs. substantive legitimacy, Prague Spring, glasnost, Solidarity, Gdansk Accord, Lech Walesa, Gorbachev, Pope John Paul II, dual transition
Subject
International Relations
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