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The Great Divide: Literacy, Nationalism, and the Communist Collapse

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Darden, Keith, Grzymala-Busse, Anna·2006·World Politics
DOI 10.1353/wp.2007.0015
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As communist regimes collapsed in the years 1989—91, communist parties and leaders exited power in roughly half the cases. The causes and the impact of this variation have generated considerable controversy. The authors show that the combined timing and content of the introduction of mass literacy was responsible for generating the national standards and comparisons that either sustained the legitimacy of communist party rule or led to its rapid and complete demise during the collapse of communist regimes. Mass literacy explains more of the patterns of the communist exit than do structural, modernization, or communist legacy accounts, and it provides a clear and sustained causal chain.

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Authors
Darden, K., & Grzymala-Busse, A.
Venue
World Politics
Publisher
Project MUSE
Published
2006-10
Volume
59
Issue
1
Pages
83-115
ISSN
  • 0043-8871 (ISSN-L)
  • 1086-3338
DOI
10.1353/wp.2007.0015
OpenAlex
W2142115438
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309
References
42
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12.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
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