The Political Analysis of Postcommunism: Understanding Postcommunist Ukraine

by Volodymyr Polokhalo

Transformation is still the order of the day in the polities of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as they emerge from decades of communism and try to forge new identities, new economies, new... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890967830
• ISBN13: 9780890967836
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

It is an introduction to a new branch of scholarly inquiry.

One of the most substantial political sciense, geopilitical,and philosophical research in contemporary Ukraine. The book is a joint effort of Ukraine's independent intellectuals (Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY, Serhiy MAKEYEV, Oleksandr DERGACHOV) and leading scholars from the US (Zbigniew BRZEZINSKI, Sherman W. GARNETT, James E. MACE), Great Britain (Markian BILYNSKY), France (Georges MINK, Jean-Charles SZUREK), Canada (Anna MAKOLKIN), Germany (Aleksandr ZINOVIEV), and other countries. The volume offered, as one of the first attempts at interdisciplinary research in this area, is but an attempt at achieving an intellectual breakthrough in the social sciences. It is an endeavor to find the theoretical linchpin, without which it would be impossible to discern the trends of political thought and critically examine the political realities and contradictions in postcommunism. The most outstanding part is "The political philosophy of the postcommunist era" mainly by Yevhen BYSTRYTSKY. The author attempts to offer a new methodology for political philosophy of the postcommunist period. As such it is an introduction to a new branch of scholarly inquiry, an attempt to analyze and understand the new world in which we live.