REVISITING EAST CENTRAL EUROPE AND RUSSIA SOCIETY AND CULTURE 20 YEARS AFTER ( HARDCOVER)

This volume brings together the papers presented at the International Conference ‘Revisiting East Central Europe and Russia: Society and Culture 20 Years After’ organised by the Department of Slavonic & Finno-Ugrian Studies, University of Delhi held on 6-7 March 2013.
XX Century is perhaps the only century that started as dramatically as it ended. Its beginning saw the coming up of the first ever-socialist regime in Russia in 1917 and later also witnessed its fall in 1991. Since then a long time has passed by and its time for drawing up of a balance sheet. Sociology of the changed cultural patterns, societies & literatures of this region is an important area of investigation and academic inquiry. The issue of development of capitalism post 1989 in the countries of East Central Europe and Russia was an important component of the transition. Equally significant was the engagement with emerging cultural paradigms dealing with and probing newer areas such as hybridity, marginal-centricity, multicultural corridors etc. in the context of East Central Europe and Russia.
The volume also has a number of articles that discuss the social conditions in the region where ‘command economies’ gave way to capitalism; albeit not without heavy costs in terms of loss of human lives and loss of employment, rise of corruption, mafiosi and crime etc.