Overview
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Systematically covers globalisation in East Central Europe during the post-war period and after regime changes
- Critically engages with recent trends in globalisation research and offers an understanding not found elsewhere
- Offers a comparative and multidisciplinary approach, drawing on methods from history, economics, population studies
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About this book
This open access Palgrave Pivot explores four major aspects of globalization: foreign trade, capital and information flows, and the movement of people. The book examines how the state socialist countries of East Central Europe fit into the general trend of globalization after WWII. It focuses on three specific countries in the region: Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. The study also considers conceptual problems: whether recently introduced terms such as ‘alternative globalization’ and ‘socialist proto-globalization’ are plausible for interpreting state socialist globalization.
Special attention is paid to the study of continuities and discontinuities in the process of globalization in East Central Europe, which is a key issue in current debates. This requires a long-term perspective, so the study covers not only the decades before 1989 but also subsequent developments. In doing so, the book attempts to find a balance between old and new mainstream interpretations: it recognises that East Central European societies experienced considerable globalization during the state socialist era; however, based on empirical findings, instead of ‘alternative’ or ‘proto-’ globalization, the book suggests other notions to conceptualise this process, including fragmentation, selectivity, and unevenness. Thus, the proposed understanding could also contribute to discussions on globalization beyond East Central Europe.
Keywords
- Open Access
- Open Access
- Capital movement East Central Europe
- Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary post WWII
- role of 1989 east central Europe
- Foreign trade east central Europe
- COMECON east central Europe
- state socialist globalisation
- information flow east Central Europe socialism
- isolation of the European state socialist countries
- post-war Eastern Europe
Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Béla Tomka is a professor of Contemporary Social and Economic History at the University of Szeged, Hungary. He is the author of 16 books including Welfare in East and West (2004), A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe (2013, winner of ‘Outstanding Academic Title 2013 Award’ by Choice, American Library Association), Austerities and Aspirations: A Comparative History of Growth, Consumption and Quality of Life in East Central Europe since 1945 (2020), and the editor of several other volumes. He is the head of the Department of Contemporary History, University of Szeged, co-founder and board member of the International Social History Association, Amsterdam, as well as leader of the History of Globalization Research Group, Budapest-Szeged, established by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globalization in State Socialist East Central Europe
Book Subtitle: Looking Beyond Dominant Narratives
Authors: Béla Tomka
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63524-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-63523-6Published: 21 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-63524-3Published: 20 July 2024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 125
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Modern History, Globalization, History of Modern Europe, European History