From Peasant Workers to Amenity Migrants. Socialist Heritage and the Future of Mountain Rurality in Romania by Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu

“…This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. …”
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Orientalizing Socialism: Architecture, Media, and the Representations of Eastern Europe by Vladimir Kulic

“…Presented through the seemingly objective medium of photography, however, these buildings are nevertheless firmly inscribed into the old ideological framework inherited from the Cold War that reduced all agency under state socialism to totalitarian control. Contradicting recent scholarship that has revealed a great deal of complexity in the construction of the socialist built environments, these new media representations constitute a novel form of Orientalism. …”
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Harold Macmillan, Margaret Thatcher and British Conservatism’s Politics of Negation by Dean Blackburn

“…By conceiving of a “middle way”, he defined his conservatism in relation to the dangerous “extremes” of free market capitalism and state socialism. Thatcher, by contrast, adopted a dyadic logic. …”
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Social Work and Domestic Violence in Croatia Through a Gendered Lens: Between Power and Precarity by Jana Kujundžić

“…In the past few years, the media and the public have routinely expressed outrage at social workers for not preventing severe cases of violence against women and children. The shift from state socialism to capitalism in Croatian society has considerably affected the profession of social work and facilitated the defunding and understaffing of the welfare sector. …”
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Dai contadini operai agli amenity migrants. L'eredità del socialismo e il futuro del ruralismo montano in Romania by Andrea Membretti, Bogdan Iancu

“…This article investigates the legacy of state socialism and the post-socialist transformation inside the Romanian Carpathians by reviewing sociological literature on new inhabitants of the Alps and anthropological literature on ruralism in Romania. …”
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‘Medical Doctors Rule the City’: Roman Załuski’s <i>Zaraza / The Epidemic </i> and the 1963 Smallpox Outbreak in Wrocław by Mikołaj Kunicki

“…Shot in communist Poland, The Epidemic depicts the outbreak of infectious disease and its handling in a non-democratic country under state socialism. Hence, the movie provides invaluable insights into physicians’ relationship with the authoritarian state.…”
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Resistance to anti-discrimination law in Central and Eastern Europe – a post-Communist legacy? by Havelkova, B

“…This Article argues that these negative attitudes can be explained in part by the specific trajectory that EAL has taken in CEE during and after state socialism, which has differed from Western Europe. …”

COVID-19 and the Corpse of Neoliberal Globalization by Tung-Yi Kho

“…Against such exuberance, the paper recalls that globalization was a post-Cold War project celebrating liberal-capitalism’s ‘triumph’ over state-socialism. It reveals globalization to be foremost about economic accumulation, not community edification. …”
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Jobs, careers, and becoming a parent under state socialist and market conditions: Evidence from Estonia 1971-2006 by Sunnee Billingsley, Allan Puur, Luule Sakkeus

“…<b>Objective</b>: We investigate how work experience and career development are related to the timing of parenthood in two diverse contexts in Estonia, state socialism and the market economy, and how it varies by gender and nativity. …”
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VISUAL DISCOURSE IN ROMANIAN GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOKS DURING SOCIALISM (1948-1989) by OANA-RAMONA ILOVAN, PÉTER BAGOLY-SIMÓ, GEORG HERBSTRITT

“…Published during the late phase of state socialism, the textbooks presented the curricular prescriptions for the past year of primary, lower se condary, and upper secondary education. …”
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Economic fortunes, ethnic divides, and marriage and fertility in Central Asia : Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan compared by Agadjanian, Victor, Dommaraju, Premchand, Nedoluzhko, Lesia

“…Declining marriage and fertility rates following the collapse of state socialism have been the subject of numerous studies in Central and Eastern Europe. …”
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Citizenship undermined: messages received through the social assistance system in contemporary Hungary by Dósa, M

“…Very few narratives go as unchallenged about the transition of Central and Eastern European countries from state socialism to market democracies as the following: before the transitions people in these countries had strong social rights but were lacking any civic and political rights, and while the transformations provided the people with firm civil and political citizenship, they lost out on social rights. …”

Identifying the causal effects of social capital in labour markets: estimation strategies and empirical evidence by Chen, Y

“…Using panel data and Heckman model from the former East Germany and contemporary China, Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 address the direct effects of using contacts to find jobs and the effects of contact’s prestige in labour markets under state socialism. </p>…”

Kinship and Transborder Exchange at the Bulgarian-Serbian border in the second half of the 20th century by Galia Valtchinova

“…The ritual and effective uses of kinship in the peculiar conditions of State socialism are analyzed in the second part of the paper. …”
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The Changing Social Role of Church-run Schools during the Communist Rule in Hungary by Gabriella Pusztai, Ágnes Inántsy-Pap

“…Meanwhile, church policy started softening in parallel with the erosion of state socialism. The ideological and political loss of marginalised social strata was unimportant for the communist regime, but certain churches started to gain experience in working with those groups at that time, e.g. in Gypsy mission. …”
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Fabians and 'Fabianism': a cultural history, 1884-1914 by Downing, PC

“…The canonical view is that ‘Fabianism,’ which the <em>Oxford English Dictionary</em> defines as the ‘doctrine and principles of the Fabian Society,’ is synonymous with State socialism and bureaucratic ‘efficiency.’ By bringing the methods of cultural history to bear on the Society’s founding members and decades, this thesis reveals that ‘Fabianism’ was in fact used as a dynamic metonymy, not a fixed doctrine, which signified a range of cultural, and even literary, meanings for British commentators in the 1890s and 1900s (Part 1). …”

Sex, communism, and videotapes: Polish sexual (r)evolutions, 1956-1989 by Dobrowolska, A

“…On the other, it also analyses the role consumerist aspirations played in modernising sexual behaviours toward the end of state socialism and how sexuality came to be used as a metaphor to narrate the sense of late state-socialist crisis. …”

Socialist Constitutionalism in Contemporary China by He, Baogang

“…This chapter examines the Chinese discourse on a socialist vision of constitutionalism as an alternative to liberal constitutionalism. 1 Chinese scholars have been searching for a new constitutionalism – one which differs from the so- called state- socialism of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and at the same time also goes beyond liberal constitutionalism. …”
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Local Entrepreneurialism in China: Multiple Roles and Practice Strategies by Yang Yawen, Gao Jinlong

“…Since the economic reform was launched in 1978, China has experienced a transition from state socialism, conceptualized as a triple process of decentralization, marketization, and globalization. …”
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Attack or reform: Systemic interventions in the judiciary in Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia by Peter Čuroš

“…While after three decades after the fall of state socialism, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia face similar problems of backsliding of the rule of law and emerging populism, different motivations, interpretations, and outcomes of the judicial reforms can be seen in Slovakia. …”
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