This paper is concerned with the social organization of collective memory and representations of history in the context of how post-communist democracies reckon with former regimes. It specifically centres on the textual accomplishment of coming to terms with the past in the 'Tismăneanu Report' condemning Communism in Romania. The focus is on how the Report displays and shapes the ideological c...

Rapid Adaptation to Social Change in Central Europe: Changes in Locus of Control, Attribution, Subjective Well-Being, Self-Direction, and Trust. This paper reviews research examining the impact of political and economic transition in post-communist Central European countries on social psychological processes. While other aspects of democratization in Central Europe have been well documented, on...

The level of trust inherent in a society is important for a wide range of microeconomic and macroeconomic outcomes. This paper investigates how individuals’ attitudes toward social and institutional trust are shaped by the political regime in which they live. The German reunification is a unique natural experiment that allows us to conduct such a study. Using data from the German General Social...

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and China sought to balance each other as well stand against capitalism, particularly in their relations with neighboring countries around the globe. While political understanding sprouting from same ideological foundations gradually disappeared Russia, it maintains its influence China. most distinctive feature this separation is perspectives, whic...

Klaus Mann (1906–1949) belonged to generation influenced by the two World Wars, burgeoning communism, and rising nationalism. Political component in his work is very strongly articulated not only novels essays, but also autobiographical work. This emphasises fascination times he lived, most of all it expresses own involvement fighting evil which eyes were represented Hitler Nazism. In Mann’s co...

In the present study we compare formation and development of Polish Hungarian social pedagogy. The main aspects comparison are principal stages in history pedagogy, training, current situation Hungary Poland.The pedagogy can be divided into three stages, following key events Central Eastern Europe, as these historical had an impact on appearance first stage is early period, era before 1945, sec...

Continuing revelations about Joseph Stalin’s reign have led many historians to rank him the greatest mass murderer of our century and possibly of all time. But a growing body of evidence indicates that they are probably mistaken: Mao Zedong, the dictator of Communist China for nearly thirty years, appears to have outdone his Russian counterpart after only a dozen years in power. Two recent book...

This paper studies the patterns of corporate culture in Bulgaria with a focus on the impact of communism and transition on Bulgarian organizations. As is well known, Communism left a unique legacy in the organizational culture of the transitional economies by creating a peculiar cultural syndrome at the enterprise level with its distinct set of values, norms, and standards based on the notion o...

Traditional “realistic” theories of social action, whether based on the individual gain heuristics of capitalism or the collective class struggles of communism, cannot explain the massive volunteerism of online socio-technical collaborations like the Wikipedia project. Based on the idea that a social system is an environment within an environment, this paper argues that people in society are su...