Hnutí a instituce: Analýza kolapsu Sovětského svazu

• Authors: Gill Graeme , Maguire Diarmuid

Title variants

EN

MOVEMENTS AND INSTITUTIONS: ANALYSING THE COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article combines institutional and social movement analysis to investigate how elite structures and mass mobilisation operated under Perestroika. We utilise the social movement theories of political opportunity, political currency and political stages in order to do so. By examining the roles of three separate periods in Soviet life, we demonstrate that these factors each had a determining role, depending on the period so chosen. The worlds of institutional structure and mass mobilisation were unconnected, at first, but then they became related in complex ways. This process saw the transformation of institutions, mass mobilisation and demobilisation within a short five year period. The result was not a transition towards democracy but the break up of a federal state.

Keywords

EN

COLLAPSE OF REGIME; HISTORY; SOVIET UNION

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovanský přehled: historická revue pro dějiny střední, východní a jihovýchodní Evropy (Slavonic Review: Review for Central, Eastern and Southeastern European history)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 97
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 75-96
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Gill Graeme

author

Maguire Diarmuid

• Graeme Gill, University of Sydney, Australia

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11CZAAAA09504