TY - BOOK AU - Lovell, David W., ed. TI - The transition: evaluating the postcommunist experience SN - 0754630617 U1 - 320.91717 PY - 2002/// CY - England PB - Ashgate KW - Post-communism KW - Democratization KW - Politics and government KW - Former communist countries N1 - 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 ER -