Book Review: Ost D. (ed.), "Claa After Communism", East European Politics and Societies and Culture (Special Issue), Volume 29, Number 3, August 2015

• Authors: Ostrowski Piotr
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Mainly due to his popular The Defeat of Solidarity, David Ost is very well known to the Polish audience. His analysis related to industrial relations developments in the context of the class notion have been widely discussed. In the Special Issue: ‘Class A! er Communism’ of the East European Politics and Societies and Cultures however, David Ost is taking us for a fascinating journey with an aim to discover a historical dimension of the concept of class (or rather the social structure analysis) not in Poland only, but also in the other postsocialist east European countries. In this sense, David Ost has gathered 12 different essays of the research and critique cases of the class concept in Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. All focus on the concept’s analysis under the state socialism and during the transition period.

Keywords

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east european politics; cocieties; cultures; economic sociology; economics

• Publisher: Szkoła Główna Handlowa w Warszawie
• Journal: Warsaw Forum of Economic Sociology
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 139-146

Contributors

author

Ostrowski Piotr

• University of Warsaw