The tenth anniversary in 1999 of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and two years later of the collapse of the Soviet Union, provides a medium-term perspective from which to reflect on the nature of the societies of "actually existing socialism," and in particular on the economic position once held by their working classes. The need for such an examination gains added weight from the triumphalist dec...

In China, successive political upheavals have impacted directly on the attitudes and identities of citizens. This paper explores how residents a small agricultural community in prosperous eastern province Zhejiang constructed discussed their own narratives history—in relation to actions power Chinese state—over course twentieth century. For three generations concerned—grandparents, parents adul...

Most discussions of Basic Income revolve around two clusters of issues: first, the normative implications of Basic Income for various conceptions of justice, and second, the pragmatic problems of the sustainability of basic income given a range of economic considerations including such things as effects on tax rates, incentives, labor markets, and so on. These are obviously important issues, bu...

Toplumun tüm katmanlarını düzenleme iddiasında olan Marksist-sosyalist ideoloji için entelektüelin toplumsal ve siyasal rolü, üzerinde çokça tartışılan bir konu olagelmiştir. İşçi sınıfının siyasi hayata hâkim olmasını öngören bu düşüncenin entelektüele verdiği rol, onun bazı özellikler taşımasını gerekli kılmaktadır. ideolojiye göre entelektüel, sol-sosyalist değerlerin benimsenmesinde topluma...

Contemporary EU territorial cohesion policy presents some striking reminders of features of socialist central planning. The objective of socio-spatial solidarity aimed at balanced spatial development is a core principle of both spatial planning doctrines. Reviewing key planning documents, this article compares territorial cohesion discourses in terms of their normative and analytical natures in...

Nearly a thousand years ago, Moldova was populated by a Romanian-speaking people, descended from Romans, who intermarried with the indigenous Dacians. A principality was established in the territory in the fourteenth century, but it did not last long. Moldova then became a tributary state of the Ottoman Empire, which lost parts of it to the Russian Empire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centur...

A CASUAL GLANCE THROUGH THE COLORFUL PAGES OF CHINESE WOMEN’S nmagazines or publications concerning contemporary mainland China might impress the modern reader concerned about the status of women in China. Stories abound about women successfully managing both family and career. Women are portrayed as nearly majestic, their outlooks modern and attractive, and they appear to exude more and more p...

While the literature emphasizes the ‘global spread’ of gated communities, the physical form of gating exists in the history for a long time. The gate and walls can at least date back to the walled city when the city was used for military defence. Even in the socialist period when egalitarianism was the predominant ideology, enclosed workunit compounds were widely built. However, gating was not ...

The article engages Hungarian film production between 1945 and 2005 from a twofold perspective. It surveys women’s inclusion in the film-making profession and assesses the representation of women in Hungarian cinema. The study seeks answers to the questions whether state-socialist emancipation rhetoric and policies targeting women’s employment and social inclusion have also affected 1) the doma...

under the title "Possibilities for and Limitations to a 'Mixed Economy' in Socialist Planned Economies", which was later published in "Acta Slavica Japonica" (Tomus 2,1984) [Sato, T., 1984]* 2 .In that paper I paid special attention to the then ongoing changes which started to appear in the course of the so-called "third wave" of economic reforms from the beginning of 1980s (in Hungary and Chin...