Comparative Study in ex-Soviet Union States Regarding Restitution/Compensation
Journal: International Journal of Social Sciences
Year: 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyze the transformations that occurred in the area of private property ownership following the change of political regime in former socialist or communist countries. The six countries looked at are: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine and Russia. These countries illustrate well the whole range of contentious problems in a region where the Communist regimes have varied tremendously in their approach to private property, intensity of social control, repression and ov