Patterns of elite-mass conflict in Soviet-type systems: 1948-1989

Following the political upheavals across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union throughout 1989, scholars of communist political systems began to reassess major theories concerning the durability of such regimes. This dissertation represents an effort to establish patterns of elite and mass political behavior across the region, and across time, and propose an explanation for shifts in these patterns. Examining the ebb and flow of collective action and elite response from 1948-1989 in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, the dissertation develops a broad, general theory to explain such patterns. It argues that shifts in the levels of a country's socioeconomic development and enduring social cleavages will, in large part, account for the specific types of collective action (legal, extra-legal, illegal) and elite response (accommodation, reform, repression).

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Political Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Pacek, Alexander Carl

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kanet, Roger E.

• Political Science, International Law and Relations

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1991 Pacek, Alexander Carl

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9136687
(UMI)AAI9136687

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21445