The middle class seems to occupy a central place in debates about recent global
transformations. The global waves of mobilizations that followed the global financial crisis of …

More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes
in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political …

Exploring the largely positive representations of Romanian Germans predominating in post-
1989 Romanian society, this book shows that the underlying reasons for German prestige …

Fracturism proved to be the" spearhead" of the 2000 generation. The first and by far the most
radical literary group formed after 1989, this promotion became the cultural expression of a …

The legal predicament of today in Europe and beyond takes the form of a devaluation of the
meaning of legality, constitutionality and, of the rule of law. What we are dealing with is yet …

This article investigates how political strategies interrelate populist rhetoric with memory
issues. By looking at the case of the Social Democratic Party (psd) from Romania, between …

Taking into account the two Romanian modernities that alternated, and clashed throughout
the twentieth century–the capitalist, and the communist, respectively–, with their different …

In 'What Was Once Theirs'(DePalma, 2007), an article published in The New York Times, the
reporter describes his trip to the house that his wife's family left behind in Guanabacoa, a city …

This chapter points out a time–space bias in mainstream Social Movement Studies, arguing
that both the types of movements and their political, social, and economic context it …

After three decades since the 1989 revolution, is postcommunism still a relevant concept for
understanding Romania's profound transformations after the fall of Ceauşescu's national …