Title: Struggling with the Communist legacy : studies of Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Czechoslovakia /
Authors: Klein, Patricia Vawter.; Helweg, Arthur Wesley, 1940-; McCrea, Barbara P.
Publisher: Eastern European Monographs ; Distributed by Columbia University Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula Politics and government; Yugoslavia Politics and government.; Poland Politics and government; Czechoslovakia Politics and government
Abstract: The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe set off a chain of political transitions, resulting in several communist societies' deterioration. This text examines Yugoslavia and the Balkan countries, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Contents: Contributions of George Klein: prophecy and reality / Patricia V. Klein -- The role of the Titoist system in the destruction of Yugoslavia / Barbara J. McCrea -- The failure of institutions in Yugoslavia / Agneza Bozic -- A note on Trukese time / Pavao Novosel -- Security in the post-communist Balkans / Robin A. Remington -- Romania and the struggle for new directions / Arthur W. Helweg -- The privatization of Romania / James K. McCollum -- Poles in the newly independent states of Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine: a case study of inherited past and uncertain future / Z. Anthony Kruszewski -- The Polish road to self-governance / Joanna Regulska -- Elite transformation in post-communist Eastern Europe: the case of the disapperaing dissidents / Carol Skalnik Leff.