Transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia
Subtitle: impact on politics, economy, and culture
By: edited by Barbara Wejnert
Contributors: Wejnert, Barbara
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
Subjects: Democratization -- Europe, Eastern; Democratization -- Former Soviet republics; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government; Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-354) and index
Table of contents: title: Integration of the processes and components of transition to democracy / Barbara Wejnert; title: McCarthyism has a new name, lustration: a personal recount of political events / Jan Kavan; title: The contribution of collective protests to the softening of communist regimes in East Central Europe / Barbara Wejnert; title: A line of blood: how December 1970 prepared Polish workers for political transition in 1989 / Jack M. Bloom; title: Transitional economics and income inequality: the case of Estonia / Nancy Brandon Tuma, Mikk Titma and Rein Murakas; title: Fiscal policy and capital formation in transition economies / Grzegorz W. Kolodko; title: Privatization politics in Russia: success or failure? Privatization and the development of corporate governance structure / Alexei Makeshin; title: Nouveaux riches versus Nouveaux pauvres: policymaking in transition economies / Grzegorz W. Kolodko; title: Vision of the Polish working class: a well-ordered economy / Juluisz Gardawski; title: A country in transition: health crisis in Ukraine, with a focus on tobacco and alcohol / Lara A. Romaniuk; title: Polish women during transition to democracy: a preliminary research report / J. Mayone Stycos, Barbara Wejnert and Zbigniew Tyszka; title: Cultural and civic movements prefiguring the breakdown of the socialist regime in Yugoslavia / Stjepan Gredelj; title: The artist's freedom and democracy / Maria Nowakowska Stycos and Grazyna Borkowska; title: The politics of architecture and the architecture of politics / Sergei Zherebkin and Barbara Wejnert; title: The impact of democratic transitions on politics, economy, and culture: lessons from Eastern Europe and Russia / Barbara Wejnert