The Great Restoration: Post-Communist Transformations from the Viewpoint of Comparative Historical Sociology of Restorations

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54573-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 424 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 780 g

Reihe: International Comparative Social Studies

‘The revolutions of 1989’ remains the standard term used to describe the onset of post-commununist transformations more than thirty years ago. Zenonas Norkus proposes a completely new perspective, theorising them as the next wave of modern social restorations, starting with the post-Napoleonic restorations in 1815. A comparison of the 1789 French and 1917 Russian revolutions was seminal for the rise of comparative historical and sociological research on modern revolutions. The book extends and supplements the sociology of modern revolutions by the first systematic outline of the sociology of modern social restorations grounded in a comparison of post-Napoleonic and post-communist restorations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norkus, Zenonas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Theorising Modern Social Restorations: Received Work

1.1 Reworking Seminal Contributions: Robert A. Kann and Rein Taagepera

1.2 Redemocratisations of Authoritarian States, Reconstitutions of Failed States and the Rights of Extinct States to Restoration

1.3 Conceptualising Restorations: Cultural and Environmental Heritage Protection as Reference Sites

2 The Rise and Collapse of Post-Revolutionary Empires: Great Modern Revolutions in Comparison

2.1 The Failure of World Revolutions and the Rise of Great Post-Revolutionary Empires: the French and Russian Revolutions in Comparison

2.2 The Defeat and Fall of Great Post-Revolutionary (Napoleonic and Soviet) Empires in Comparison

2.3 Post-Napoleonic Restoration and Post-Communist Rehabilitation of the International Order in Comparison

3 Post-Napoleonic and Post-Communist Domestic Restorations and Rehabilitations in Comparison

3.1 Dilemmas of Post-Napoleonic and Post-Communist Domestic Restorations in Comparison

3.2 Endurance Failures of (Most) Post-Napoleonic Restorations

3.3 Post-Communist Rehabilitations and Restorations on the Endurance Success Track

4 Do Progressive Social Restorations Exist?

4.1 Did the Post-Napoleonic Restorations Bring Economic, Health and Somatic Progress?

4.2 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Economically Progressive?

4.3 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Health Progressive?

4.4 Are Post-Socialist Capitalist Rehabilitations and Restorations Somatically Progressive?

Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Zenonas Norkus, Ph.D. (1984), Saint-Petersburg University (Russian Federation), is a Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His book publications include Max Weber and Rational Choice (2001), On Baltic Slovenia and Adriatic Lithuania (2012), An Unproclaimed Empire: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (2018).