The transition: evaluating the postcommunist experience/
edited by David W. Lovell
- England: Ashgate, 2002.
- ix, 178 p. ; 23 cm.
1. Introduction: Making sense of the transition from communism -- 2. Democratization and the development of civil society -- 3. State-transformation and postcommunist democratization -- 4. Direct democracy in postcommunist states: Institutions and experiences since 1989 -- 5. Corruption, trust, and the danger to democratization in the Former Soviet Union -- 6. Political culture in contemporary Russia: Trapped between glory and guilt -- 7. Between two historic models of modernization: The case of Azerbaijan -- 8. Building capitalism in Poland: Some paradoxes -- 9. German democracy and its East German discontents -- 10. Conclusion: The transition as a return to Europe.
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Post-communism Democratization Politics and government Former communist countries