Binding: Paperback
Description: The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality paying special attention to achieving gender equality to build up industry and create prosperous societies and to use music art and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and in Yugoslavia by 1949. Communism was all about planning control and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy but also the media and information religious organizations culture and the promotion of women which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.
Title: East Central Europe And Communism Politics Culture And Society 1943 1991
Author(s): Ramet Sabrina P. (Norwegian University Of Science And Technology Norway)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032318202
Pages: 338 Pages, 30 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 3/23/2023
Series: Routledge Open History
Category: Regional Geography