Patterns of Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

Sharman, Jason Campbell

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Title

Patterns of Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

Author(s)

Sharman, Jason Campbell

Issue Date

1999

Doctoral Committee Chair(s)

Gerardo L. Munck

Department of Study

Political Science

Discipline

Political Science

Degree Granting Institution

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Degree Name

Ph.D.

Degree Level

Dissertation

Keyword(s)

History, European

Language

eng

Abstract

This dissertation aims to trace how the peculiar structures of Communist political systems influenced people's means of protest and thereby helped to constitute general state-society relations. It is argued that big structural changes like the abolition of the market and civil society and the growth of the Party-state removed many resources necessary for people to turn their grievances into organised resistance against the authorities. This dearth of resources both reduced the amount of protest, and favoured relatively ineffective forms of protest. Because people were often prohibited from contesting state decisions, and tended to adopt less effective means of contention when they did, the Party-state dominated society. The dissertation follows a comparative historical methodology aimed at substantiating the theoretical argument and discrediting rival explanations by pattern matching within-case causal linkages, applied to the Soviet collectivisation campaign, the Hungarian Uprising and the Polish Solidarity movement.

Graduation Semester

1999

Type of Resource

text

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