East European Quarterly articles from September 1995

East European Quarterly archives from September 1995

Church and state in Eastern Europe during the Fourteenth Century: why the Romanians remained in the Orthodox area.
September 22, 1995... After 1204, when Constantinople was conquered by the Western "Crusaders" (named Latini), the Papacy had apparently the best opportunity to put an end to the so-called Eastern Schism. The direct control over the center of the Eastern...

Belarusan national identity as an aspect of conscientious objection in interwar Poland.
September 22, 1995... Interwar Poland, like most other countries in continental Europe, imposed conscription on its able-bodied young men, who were required to serve in the armed forces for a period of two years before being placed on army reserve. Conscientious...

The East German communists and the origins of the Berlin blockade crisis.
September 22, 1995... A combination of long-term and short-term causes resulted in the Soviet effort to isolate and strangulate Berlin's Western sectors three years after the Second World War. Only a joint British-American airlift, which lasted nearly one year and...

Green revolutions? The role of green parties in eastern Europe's transition, 1989-1994.
September 22, 1995... The dramatic events in Eastern Europe beginning in 1989 caught many policy-makers and social scientists by surprise. The collapse of communism opened many doors, but it also left many troubling legacies for the emerging democracies including...

National identity and minority rights in the constitutions of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION Together with establishing the basic machinery of government and the fundamental rights of citizens, constitutions perform a vital role in constructing national identity. This role is nowhere more central than in the...

The splintering of the Hungarian labor movement.
September 22, 1995... I. INTRODUCTION The fundamental changes in labor relations in Central and Eastern Europe have been overshadowed during the early stages of transformation by such issues as macroeconomic stabilization and property ownership. A notable...

Training and technical assistance for local government in Hungary: a critique and suggestions for reform.
September 22, 1995... INTRODUCTION In 1990, Hungarians replaced their communist government and centrally planned economy with democratic, parliamentary government and capitalist, market economy (Szoboszlai, 1991; Held, 1992; Peteri, 1991). The...