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Modern revolution: Social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Modern revolution: Social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China./
Author:	Brook, Daniel Charles.
Description:	269 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-08, Section: A, page: 3325.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International58-08A.
Subject:	Social structure. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9804637
ISBN:	9780591544978

Modern revolution: Social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China.
Brook, Daniel Charles.

Modern revolution: Social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China. - 269 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 58-08, Section: A, page: 3325.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 1997.

This dissertation primarily analyzes the causal convergence of the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. It does so through socio-cultural and political economic perspectives, within a comparative historical methodological framework. The key strategy in tracking the causal convergence is an oscillating emphasis on structures, agencies, cultures, and their interactions. The dissertation first asserts that the Velvet Revolution is a case of "modern revolution", positing a comprehensive definition for this new phenomenon. The dissertation also addresses the critical methodological questions of "what is a case?" and "what is a cause?". It then assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the comparative method (what Charles Ragin in Constructing Social Research refers to as "halfway between the qualitative approach and the quantitative approach"). These issues are critical because methodology and theory are dialectically related. Employing the comparative historical method as the best available, the dissertation proceeds to detail the causal convergence through "the unravelling of historical narratives", what Jack Goldstone also terms "process-tracing" and what is expanded to "event-process-tracing" in this dissertation. The causal convergence revolves around the factors of histories of democracy, the power of human rights, the quiddity of the economy, the Gorbachev phenomenon, the might of the mass media, the role of relative deprivation, and the acquiescence of the military. Comparisons are made, when appropriate, with other revolutionary situations across space and time, especially in Eastern Europe. A chapter on the negative case of revolution in China in 1989 (despite it being a positive case of rebellion) is also presented as an in depth comparison with Czechoslovakia. The dissertation concludes with a triadic typology of pre-revolutionary governments, optimism for the political economic development and democratic consolidation of the Czech Republic (though not for Slovakia), a prediction of modern revolution in China in the short to medium term, and a contribution toward a general theory of modern revolution. Appendices include an annotated chronology of selected event-processes, the Charter 77 Declaration, and the Chinese students' Hunger Strike Announcement.

ISBN: 9780591544978Subjects--Topical Terms:

528995
Social structure.

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