Social Conflicts and Postsocialist East-European Societies

Abstract

Unexpectancy and the speed of changes that took place in the areas of southeastern and central Europe, after pulling down of the Berlin Wall, theoretical thought was not ready to welcome. Transforming processes have started to develop elementary and most often based on the concepts of radical (exceeded already in the XIX century) liberal capitalism. Economic regression, political system which still failed to get its final shapes, radical social restratification, and after all pauperisation, and also bearing in mind the misery of life of the greater part of the population, made naked the conflict structure of the society. Ideological, and after that institutional desintegration of real socialistic societies had made the latent social conflicts out of all institutional and regulative frames, and also appearace of "new" conflicts in all fields of social structure. Therewith, the upsetting issue about postsocialist societies is often turning of social conflicts into armed ones, and sometimes into bloody wars of high intensity and the destructiveness (ZND, SFRY, SRY and Macedonia as paradigm).