„Magické noci počal čas“: new-age spiritualita a subkultury v čase změn by Ondřej Daniel

“…The research focuses on the period of changes from state socialism to liberal democracy in Czechoslovakia. …”
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Social Problems and Women´s Politics in Eastern Europe - Socialist, Feminist and Neo-Liberal Perspectives by Sabine Hering

“…The post-1989 transition from state socialism to capitalism and democracy has produced winners and losers. …”
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Exiled by Definition:The Salar of Northwest China by David SG Goodman

“…The reform of state socialism came relatively late to Qinghai Province in the Northwest of the People’s Republic of China. …”
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The legal notion of gender equality in the Czech Republic by Havelkova, B

“…While the transition from state socialism to capitalism brought positive legal reforms - many incurred in the EU accession process - some of these new mechanisms, especially anti-discrimination and gender equality provisions, are mistrusted and misunderstood by legal actors. …”

How the Female Subject was Tempered. An Instructive History of 8 March and Its Media Representation in Naša Žena (Our Woman) by Petričević Paula

“…The emancipatory potential of these processes turned out to be limited in the later period of stabilization of Yugoslav state socialism and largely forgotten in the postsocialist period. …”
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WHY WORK? A CULTURALLY INFORMED CRITIQUE OF PAST AND PRESENT SHOP FLOOR INTERPRETATIONS OF WORK by MIHAELA KELEMEN, DIRK BUNZEL, PAUL WILLIS

“…Twenty years on from the collapse of state socialism,Western experts are still called upon to prescribe ‘the best way’ for how productive workshould be conducted/managed across the non-Western world (Jankowicz, 1993; 1994; Kostera,1995, Kelemen, 1999). …”
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Exiled by Definition:The Salar of Northwest China by David SG Goodman

“…The reform of state socialism came relatively late to Qinghai Province in the Northwest of the People’s Republic of China. …”
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Lenin as a Child Visual Propaganda and Pedagogy by Lajos Somogyvári

“…My study aims to reveal the connections between visual propaganda and pedagogy during the Hungarian state-socialism by analyzing different variations of a single picture of Vladimir Lenin. …”
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Doing gender and age: The case of informal elderly care in the Czech Republic by Radka Dudová

“…The Czech Republic is a country with a history of state socialism and with traditionally large numbers of women in the workforce, but it also has a highly traditional gender culture.…”
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Beyond ideology: Representations of the Baroque in socialist Czechoslovakia as seen through the media by Lenka Řezníková

“…This paper focuses on representations of the Baroque in Czechoslovakia under state socialism (1948–1989). In this period, policies and politics had a huge impact on the ideological discourses that determined how the Baroque was to be officially interpreted. …”
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PROFESIONALIZACIJA SOCIALNEGA DELA V SLOVENIJI: MED ENTUZIAZMOM ŽENSK IN ZAHTEVAMI OBLASTI by Darja Zaviršek

“…It marks the beginnings of the professionalisation of social work in the context of state socialism. On one hand, the government viewed social work with unease while, on the other, Yugoslavia was the only country of the former “socialist bloc“ to introduce comprehensive social work education in all its republics. …”
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Orte des Klassenkampfs in der Tschechoslowakei als Erinnerungsorte: Die Arbeiterbewegung in Nordböhmen || Places of Class Struggle in Czechoslovakia As Realms of Remembrance: The L... by Čeněk Pýcha

“…This paper discusses the tourism in places in connection with “class struggle” during the era of state socialism in Czechoslovakia. During the time of economic crisis in the 1930s, there were some incidents between gendarmerie and striking workers in the areas of high unemployment. …”
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Let it Sprawl: Post-Socialist Policies Enabling Suburbanization by Pavel Šuška, Martin Šveda

“…The trend of settlement decentralisation within the dynamically growing metropolitan region contrasts in many ways with the settlement development of the period of state socialism, during which centrally controlled and planned settlement transformation and industrial urbanisation brought about the most intensive urban development and settlement transformation on the territory of the Slovak Republic to date. …”
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Political thought of the Polish Socialist Party former Revolutionary Faction in the period of 1928–1939 by Adam Laska

“…The results of the research found that the former PSP Revolutionary Faction proclaimed the principles of state socialism and used evolutionary methods to raise the standard of living of workers and introduced the Polish Socialist Republic. …”
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Communism as a General Crime: Applying Hegemony Analysis to Anti-Communist Discourse in Contemporary Poland by Michalina Golinczak

“…With the collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe, anti-communism gained new momentum. …”
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International Media and Tourism Industry as the Facilitators of Socialist Legacy Heritagization in the CEE Region by Nebojša Čamprag

“…After the fall of state socialism in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the socialist legacy became a matter of contested discourses, coming from the new national governments. …”
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International Elderly Migration in Hungary by Sándor Illés

“…“Pension seeking” is one very distinctive feature of IEM and is in many ways a legacy of the state socialism period. Therefore, its emergence on such a large scale is the result of the transformation period. …”
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Working Class Women’s Activism in Socialist Yugoslavia: An Exploration of Archives from Varaždin, Croatia by Bonfiglioli Chiara, Žerić Sara

“…Their critical exploration of archival sources produced between the mid-1950s and the late 1980s has enabled the authors to challenge dominant interpretations of women’s activism during state socialism, particularly the idea that no relevant activism existed after the dissolution of the Antifascist Women’s Front (AFŽ) in 1953. …”
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Context, Experience, Expectation, and Action—Towards an Empirically Grounded, General Model for Analyzing Biographical Uncertainty by Herwig Reiter

“…A historical event like the collapse of state socialism in Europe, similar to the recent financial and economic crisis, is a generator of uncertainty par excellence: it undermines the foundations of societies and the taken-for-grantedness of related expectations. …”
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Politics of the Blessed Lady: Catholic Art in the Contemporary Hungarian Culture Industry by Marc Roscoe Loustau

“…Building on critiques of subjectivity- and embodiment-focused research, I highlight how the institutional legacies of state socialism in Hungary and Romania inform a <i>national</i> politics of Catholic materiality. …”
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