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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"State Socialism"”.
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Of bureaucracies and motorways: administrative reform and infrastructure policy for national roads in Poland
… has been whether an administrative legacy from state socialism continues to affect policy implementation. The question of an administrative legacy is addressed by the following four research questions: 1) Which mechanisms reproduced the administrative legacy of state-socialism in the national …
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Alienated Social Reproduction: A study on the politics of neoliberal urban restructuring in Leipzig, East Germany
… driven urban change since the end of state socialism with tenants’ political subjectivation, it offers an interdisciplinary contribution to urban political economy and the political, sociological, and geographical study of the formation of political subjectivities. Through retroductive …
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Ideologies, Histories, and Representations of Work and Labour in Contemporary German-Language Literature: Forced Labour, Sex Work, and State Socialist Labour Ideologies
… of labour developed and elaborated under state socialism. On the one hand, these topics are of particular importance when considering the cultural memory of work in an de-industrialised age as it relates to issues such as the ambivalent ideological inheritance of Marxist conceptualisations …
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Limits of State Control in Economic Life
… there was set up in Germany a totalitarian state which departed about as far from democracy as it was possible to go. Very soon Fascist Italy was marching along in the same direction. Once more the world was thrown into a welter of confusion and bloodshed by . World War II an attempt by the …
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Made in the GDR : the changing geographies of women in the post-socialist rural society in Mecklenburg-Westpommerania
… women's experiences in rural areas under state socialism in the GDR and in the New Germany since 1989. The study is located within feminist geographical thinking and draws on a variety of qualitative and quantitative sources. Data for the research were collated through various research …
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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
… of the regime’s education system, delivering the state’s ideology in its efforts to develop the socialist personality among youth and generate genuine enthusiasm for the construction of state-socialism. Just as these comics organized children’s activities and leisure time, they were taken up and …
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The role of Kazakhstani HEIs and international academic publishing in Kazakhstan's post-Soviet nation-building
… in the process of transition from communism and state socialism toward democracy and market economy. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence in 1991 have significantly changed not only the economic and political landscape of Kazakhstan. Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of …
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"""Ceaușescu's children:"" the making and unmaking of Romania's last socialist generation (1965-2010)"
… the role of children as both objects of state efforts to raise loyal socialist citizens and as agents in their own right. The focus on children, who are universally envisioned by modern political regimes as citizens in the making, allows me to pose broader theoretical questions about the …
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Selling, yet still social: The continuing rhetorical importance of a consociational personhood among the self-employed in eastern Germany
… towards late capitalism as it moved from a state socialism – where the egalitarian ‘socialist personality’ was fostered alongside a vehement criticism of capitalist individualism – I investigate the rhetorical strategies the self-employed use to describe themselves, their lives and …
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Occult Communism: culture, science and spirituality in late socialist Bulgaria
… Communism” explores the unlikely infusion of state-sponsored spiritualism into the materialist ideology of Bulgarian late communism. In the 1970s, Minister of Culture Lyudmila Zhivkova initiated grandiose state programs to inject the “occult” into Bulgaria’s national culture, art, science and …