ISBN:
9780511153389
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0521770009
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (339 pages)
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in rationality and social change
Parallel Title:
Petersen, Roger Dale, 1959 - Resistance and rebellion
Parallel Title:
Print version Resistance and rebellion
DDC:
947.93
Keywords:
Government, Resistance to History 20th century
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Government, Resistance to History 20th century
;
Government, Resistance to History
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20th century
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Europe, Eastern
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Lithuania ; History ; Autonomy and independence movements
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Electronic books
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Europe, Eastern History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
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Lithuania History
;
Autonomy and independence movements
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Litauen
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Widerstand
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Geschichte 1940-1950
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Litauen
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Sowjetunion
;
Widerstand
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Geschichte 1987-1991
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Osteuropa
;
Widerstand
;
Geschichte 1940-1991
;
Litauen
;
Widerstand
;
Sowjetunion
;
Geschichte 1940-1991
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- What Is to Be Explained? -- Mechanisms -- Restating the Central Question -- Community -- Basic Definition and General Features of Community -- Mechanisms of Strong Community -- Community Structure -- The Community as the Key Level of Analysis -- Assessing the Theory: The Comparative Method -- Outline -- Comparative Analyses -- 2. Mechanisms and Process -- From Neutrality to Widespread, Unarmed, and Unorganized Resistance -- Resentment Formation -- Transforming Resentment into Action: The Relevance of Symbols and the Focal-Point Mechanism -- Status Rewards -- The Strategic Context of Movement from 0 to +1 -- Concluding Comments -- The Development of Community-Based Organization -- Knowing the Distribution of Thresholds -- Factors Affecting Threshold Levels -- The General Effects of Strong Community -- Specific Effects of Community Structure: The Role of Norms -- The Structural Characteristics of Community and Their Effect on Rebellion -- Solidarity I: Density -- The Position of "First Actors" and Political Entrepreneurs -- Centralization -- Size Factors -- Solidarity II: Homogeneity/Heterogeneity -- Summing Up -- Sustaining Mechanisms: Remaining at the +2 Position -- Threats -- Irrational Mechanisms -- Other Mechanisms -- Concluding Remark -- 3. Lithuania, 1940-1941 -- From 0 to +1 in Lithuania under the First Soviet Occupation -- Historical Background -- Lithuania in the Late 1930s -- The First Soviet Occupation, 1940-1941 -- Explaining the Rapid Movement to Passive Resistance -- Changes in Status Hierarchy and the Formation of Resistance -- The First Forms of Resistance -- Focal Points and Status -- Threshold Behavior and the Interaction of Mechanisms -- From +1 to +2 during the First Soviet Occupation.
Abstract:
How do ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes? This book provides a detailed theoretical treatment of the process that pushes and pulls individuals into risk-laden roles. The work compares several East European nations to show the breadth and depth of the approach
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Tables; Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Mechanisms and Process; 3. Lithuania, 1940-1941; 4. Rebellion in an Urban Community: The Role of Leadership and Centralization; 5. The German Occupation of Lithuania; 6. Postwar Lithuania; 7. More Cases, More Comparisons; 8. Resistance in the Perestroika Period; 9. Fanatics and First Actors; 10. Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 305 - 315, Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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