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Subversive Institutions: The Design and the Destruction of Socialism and the State

By Valerie Bunce

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1999
ISBN
0521584493, 9780521584494
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13619821 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Pages
222\223
Time added
2016-10-04 22:09:41
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Description

Based on a series of controlled comparisons among regimes and states, Valerie Bunce's book argues that two factors account for the remarkable collapse of the socialist dictatorships in Europe from 1989-1992: the institutional design of socialism as a regime, a state and a bloc, and the rapid expansion during the 1980s of opportunities for domestic and international change. Together, these two factors explain not just why socialist regimes and states ended, but also why the process was peaceful in some cases and violent in others.

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