... the progression of democratization, when most of the countries that were part of the Soviet Union started to move away from authoritarianism and entered what today is called, the transition period. The transition paradigm assumed that all transitions from previous political regimes will be towards democracy. Yet, as some cases of the fourth wave of democratization show- as named by Mcfaul ... Poland- all have very similar historical backgrounds having some sort of democratic institutions present previous to the establishment of the communist rule in the region. All three entered the tra...

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... and negligible laborers, and poor and common people, seemed the most stably established way of living that the world has ever seen Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in this period there was no ruling unifying idea in men's minds. The impulse of the empire had failed until the Emperor was no more than one of a number of competing princes, and ... to set that story in a better light. To Voltaire official Christianity was "lnfame"; something that limited people's lives, interfered with their thoughts, and persecuted harmless dissentients. And indeed in that period of the i...

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... lived in the former GDR, so she has an intimate knowledge of political events of the time. Lothar Elsner also lived in the GDR and has a deep understanding of the period due to long-term research work preferential on the history of international migration and the foreigner policy in the 20th century and his work in the SED Rostock. The purpose ... ...

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