Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe: Essays in Honour of Edmund Mokrzycki (Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 14
Foreword......Page 22
Acknowledgments......Page 25
1. Introduction......Page 26
Part I: Perspectives on Civil Society......Page 40
2. Civil Society: Notes on the Revival of a Concept......Page 42
3. Civil Society and its Discontents......Page 54
4. Comments on Reichardt and Scaff......Page 65
Part II: The Political Sociology of Civil Society in Transitional Societies......Page 70
5. Democracy, Inequality and State Crisis......Page 72
6. State–society Relations......Page 86
7. The Middle Class in Transition from Communism to Capitalist Society......Page 112
8. Transforming Leviathan in South Eastern Europe......Page 130
9. Bringing “Class” and “Interest Group" Back in......Page 144
10. Explaining the Transformation from State Socialism......Page 150
11. The Climate of Globalization......Page 170
12. Is there an Organisational Base for Civil Society in Central Eastern Europe?......Page 188
13. Weber, Eastern Europe, and Civil Society......Page 221
Part III: The Perils of Transitology: The Role of Intellectuals......Page 228
14. How to be a Sociologist and a Humanist?......Page 230
15. Hidden Actors, Overlooked Dimensions and Blind Intellectuals......Page 251
16. The Enchantment of the Social......Page 263
17. Was "Real Existing Socialism" Merely a Premature form of Rule by Experts?......Page 273
Part IV: Comparative Perspectives......Page 288
18. Democratic Consolidation in Third Wave Democracies......Page 290
19. Building Post-communist States......Page 313
20. Similarities and Differences in the Social Reality and Sociological Analysis of Russia Compared with Poland and Hungary......Page 331
21. Third-way Politics, Sceptical Voters, Insecure Societies......Page 350
22. National Myths, Pro-socialist Capitalism, and the Old and New Mythmakers......Page 366
23. Civil Society......Page 385
Part V: Democracy East of the Elbe: Problems and Prospects......Page 392
24. Institutional Modernization......Page 394
25. Threats to Democracy......Page 404
26. Building Civil Society and Democracy East of the Elbe......Page 407
27. Democracy, Memory and Forgiving......Page 420
Index......Page 428