Transformations of Post-Communist States
Contributors: Wojciech Kostecki (Editor); Katarzyna Zukrowska (Editor); Bogdan J. Goralczyk (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780312230029
Subjects: Contemporary Politics - Eastern Europe; Democracy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Political Science / Communism & Socialism; Political; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; 1989-; Case studies; Europe, Eastern; Politics and government; Post-Communism
Description: "While post-communist states vary in their economic development, political history, cultural traditions and religious and ethnic compositions, the challenges presented by the post-communist transformation are relatively uniform. This is a new kind of transformation that contains simultaneous democratization, marketization and nation building. It involves the creation of a new international environment within the framework of globalization as well as a revolution in mentality at the national level."

"The editors and contributors, the majority of whom are from the region, give an 'internal' perspective on these post-communist transformations and present - in a comparative and multidisciplinary form - new challenges to the post-communist states. They also provide readers with a state-by-state analysis of the differences in political and economic patterns and outcomes."--Jacket.