East European Quarterly articles from March 1997

East European Quarterly archives from March 1997

Bulgaro-Turkish encounters and the re-imaging of the Bulgarian nation (1878-1995).
March 1, 1997... Defining the place of Bulgaria's Turkish minority within the national body politic has been one of the invariable features of the multiple projects of modernity that punctuate Bulgaria's history. All of the primary political turning points in...

The "international Jewish conspiracy" reaches Poland: Teodor Jeske-Choinski and his works.
March 1, 1997... Anti-Semitism, like the poor, has always been with us. But it was not until the second half of the nineteenth century that anti-Semitism began to take on the rhetoric, ideological contours, and nationalist coloring that marks "modern"...

The Lemko question in the Polish press, 1987-1993. (Polish ethnic group)
March 1, 1997... An earlier review of the Polish press spanning the years 1980-86, noted that a "real eruption" of interest in Poland's Lemko minority took place in the early 1980s.(1) The author of that review felt that press writing often portrayed Lemkos as...

Poland and IMF conditionality programs: 1990-1995. (International Monetary Fund)
March 1, 1997... With the collapse of communism in 1989, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) found itself in a situation without historical parallels. A large number of new countries required immediate stabilization and liberalization, with economic systems...

Transition from communism and the spectre of Latin-Americanisation.
March 1, 1997... All economically highly developed countries are democracies. Most of the world's democracies are economically highly developed. One thus assumes that both things -- economic and political -- development go together.(1) But correlation is not...

Prosecuting human rights violations from a previous regime: the east European experience.
March 1, 1997... I. INTRODUCTION: POLITICAL TRIALS AND HUMAN RIGHTS PROCEEDINGS IN OTHER CONTEXTS In the past two decades, a remarkable number of countries have apparently transformed themselves from either authoritarian or totalitarian hells into modern...

Social turmoil in post-socialist Eastern Europe - a revolution gone astray?
March 1, 1997... Introduction The political, social, and economic transformations which have been taking place in Eastern Europe and the former USSR for the past six years or so, have so far brought about quite ambiguous results: On the one hand, there...

The Croatian project to partition Bosnia-Hercegovina, 1990-1994.
March 1, 1997... Croatian efforts to partition Bosnia-Hercegovina have resulted in disaster, both for Croatia's state interests and for the Bosnian Croat community. The war of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO) against the Army of the Republic of...