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‘Modernising’ Eastern Europe: theoretical problems and political dilemmas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2009

Klaus Müller
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The upheavals in the Eastern European countries have demonstrated to the social sciences in a painful manner that they do not dispose of any adequate theory suited to grasp the dynamics and scope of the processes taking place there. Western sociology has won its categories from analysing Western societies and, in a premature manner, come to a generalised concept of society as such. Absorbed by the problems of advanced capitalism, it was not prepared for the collapse of the Easterns systems. Exploring socialist societies has, until recently, pre-eminently been a topic of specialised disciplines, such as Eastern European Studies, Soviet Studies, the Theory of International Relations, Comparative Economics and Development Studies. Its theory-building has remained too closely tied to pre-defined questions, to official documents, uncertain and precarious data or to ideological givens, to be able to assess realistically the developmental dynamics of Eastern societies. The exchange of information between Eastern and Western scholars has been highly selective, hence seldom resulting in mutual fertilisation.

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Society and democracy in Eastern Europe
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , June 1992 , pp. 109 - 150
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Copyright © Archives Européenes de Sociology 1992

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