Left Parties and Social Policy in Post-Communist Europe (Eastern Europe After Communism (Paperback))
Contributors: Linda J. Cook (Editor); Mitchell Orenstein (Editor); Marilyn Rueschemeyer (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780813335698
Subjects: Political parties; Social welfare & social services; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; c 1990 to c 2000; History; Eastern Europe - General; Russia (Federation); Politics / Current Events; Politics and government; History: World; Eastern Europe; Government - International; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Public Policy - Social Policy; 1989-; Social policy; Socialism; Europe, Eastern; Post-communism
First sentence: If the collapse of European Communism in 1989-1990 came as a great surprise, it was nearly as much a surprise that four or five years later parties of the left made substantial electoral gains across Eastern Europe.