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SOME LESSONS OF COLLECTIVE PROTEST IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA, AND EAST GERMANY IN 1989–1993

SOME LESSONS OF COLLECTIVE PROTEST IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: POLAND, HUNGARY,... ! i Mate Szabo! SOME LESSONS OF COLLECTIVE~ PROTEST IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN I POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: j POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA, AND! ! EAST GERMANY IN 1989_=. ~.22..?.. ...1 TRADITIONS SHAPING CONTEMPORARY PROTEST CULTURES When thinking about the traditions and the cultural heritage of contemporary protest movements, it is worth noting that East Central European history in the twentieth century has not been very rich in manifestations of political protest.l Despite recurrent political upheavals, revolutions, wars, and so on, protest as understood in the present paper2-that is, public mobilization of support for specific demands-is not very widespread in the countries of the region. The attitude of the Habsburg Empir·e towards spontaneous initiatives from below r······~:···~~·;:~~~~;·~:··~ Political History of East Central Europe Since World War Two (Oxford: Oxford University Pres:;, 1989), pp. 147 -91; G. Schopflin, Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993), pp. 127-224. 2. The present paper is based on a cross-national comparative study which sought to analyze characteristic features of post-1989 political protest in the former GDR, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. For the purposes of empirical investigation, 'protest' was defined as not-fully-institutionalized collective action which attempts to mobilize wide public support for the goals of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png East Central Europe Brill

SOME LESSONS OF COLLECTIVE PROTEST IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA, AND EAST GERMANY IN 1989–1993

Szabó, Máté
East Central Europe , Volume 27 (1): 59 – Oct 3, 2000
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! i Mate Szabo! SOME LESSONS OF COLLECTIVE~ PROTEST IN CENTRAL EUROPEAN I POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES: j POLAND, HUNGARY, SLOVAKIA, AND! ! EAST GERMANY IN 1989_=. ~.22..?.. ...1 TRADITIONS SHAPING CONTEMPORARY PROTEST CULTURES When thinking about the traditions and the cultural heritage of contemporary protest movements, it is worth noting that East Central European history in the twentieth century has not been very rich in manifestations of political protest.l Despite recurrent political upheavals, revolutions, wars, and so on, protest as understood in the present paper2-that is, public mobilization of support for specific demands-is not very widespread in the countries of the region. The attitude of the Habsburg Empir·e towards spontaneous initiatives from below r······~:···~~·;:~~~~;·~:··~ Political History of East Central Europe Since World War Two (Oxford: Oxford University Pres:;, 1989), pp. 147 -91; G. Schopflin, Politics in Eastern Europe 1945-1992 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993), pp. 127-224. 2. The present paper is based on a cross-national comparative study which sought to analyze characteristic features of post-1989 political protest in the former GDR, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. For the purposes of empirical investigation, 'protest' was defined as not-fully-institutionalized collective action which attempts to mobilize wide public support for the goals of the

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