Inventing the Needy offers a powerful, innovative analysis of welfare policies and practices
in Hungary from 1948 to the last decade of the twentieth century. Using a compelling mix of …

Colin Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of
communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes …

The 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement pitted a state with totalitarian intentions against an
emerging civil society. Ten years of economic reform have begun to erode the rigid controls …

The classic sociolinguistic opposition between status and solidarity as organizing principles
of linguistic variation is currently being integrated with broader social theories of symbolic …

This article analyzes the rhetorical structure of a single set of events—the reburial of Béla
Bartók's body in Budapest—and shows how these events were a constitutive part of political …

Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analyzing
Solidarity's significance on three levels. First, he explains the background to and nature of …

The gendered assumptions embedded in the construction of the rational individual are well
established in Western feminist thought but inapplicable to describe societies operating on …

In Hungary, as in all of" new Europe," liberalization is troubled. Using Hungary as an in-
depth case study, Korkut demonstrates that, in squandering popular goodwill, credibility, and …

POLAND AND HUNGARY are the two East European countries in which the process of
social, political and economic change is most advanced. The collapse of the communist …

Working Difference is one of the first comparative, historical studies of women's professional
access to public institutions in a state socialist and a capitalist society. Éva Fodor examines …