East and West

Travel and communication under alternate regimes; a research note

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12302219
AutoresAlexander J Groth (Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis, CA, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas121-133
Fecha de publicación2006-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
EditorialElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.postcomstud.2005.09.007
OpenAlexW1979104668
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas19

Using information supplied to international agencies, communication and transportation patterns of Communist and Post-Communist European states are compared with those of non-communist Europe. East European states under Communist rule tended to emphasize public—more easily “scripted,” observed and controlled media and conveyances—over private ones. This emphasis was substantially grounded in obsessive political security concerns among communist regimes. The performance of Post-Communist states indicates a significant shift toward the patterns of non-communist Western Europe and coincides with political regime changes moving East Europe closer to the pluralist West. Diffusion of cars, telephones, railroad traffic, radio, television, newspapers and cinema are analyzed

Communism · Communist state · Eastern Bloc · Economics · Economy · Geography · Newspaper · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Leadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs