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Using the theatric metaphors of a passion play in Poland, simultaneous ethnic dramas in Yugoslavia, a heroic poem in Armenia, and a bunraku puppet play in the People's Republic of China, the authors of this book chronicle the massive confrontation by citizens through the Socialist Block with their communist governments in 1990-91. These historic and dynamic communication processes are analyzed and placed in theoretic perspective by three communication scholars from a political, rhetorical, and strategic interaction perspective.
"This book has a unique communication drama analysis which provides insight into complex political/economic/social changes in an important area of the world. The events happening now in communist countries would rank among the most significant changes of this century, and will have implications far into the next century as well. The book will prove of interest to scholars and students in many disciplines, including such diverse disciplines as communication, political science, and history, not to mention practitioners in politics, international business, and world trade. The analyses show both a careful attention to detail combined with an interpretive insight that is astute if not brilliant." — Richard J. Dieker, Western Michigan University
Preface
Contributors
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Role of Communication in Engineering Political, Economic, and Social Institutions
Sarah S. King and Donald P. Cushman
PART II. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE
2. The Rhetoric of Circumstance: The Case of Poland, 1980-1990
Rowland Baughman and Andrjez Kozminski
3. Yugoslavia: Ethnic Dramas Without Denouement
Branislav Kovacic and Bozidar Travica
4. Communication and Power: A Short History of the Armenian National Movement
Lucig H. Danielian
5. Communication in the Failed Student Movement
Guo-Ping Fei and Xu Yu
PART III. IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND RHETORIC
6. The Role of Mass Communication Processes in Producing Upheavals in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China
Robert E. Sanders
7. The Communication of Cultural Memory and the Reconstitution of Society
Gerard A. Hauser
8. Visions of Order in Poland, Yugoslavia, Armenia, and China
Donald P. Cushman and Sarah S. King