Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe

Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe is an orientation guide to the new post-communist reality. The book, written by social scientists who specialize on Eastern Europe, provides a comprehensive analysis of the transformation taking place in the former Soviet Union. - - Among the topics discussed are the new international relations in Eastern Europe, the economic transition, the prospects of political democracy in Russia, the emerging social structure in Russia, and the outlines of a post-communist social policy. - - The book focuses on the future development of the post-communist societies, especially Russia, viewing this development as a peculiar dialectic of modernization, an interplay of old and new, of change and continuity. The social, political and economic structures created during the dissolved regime continue their existence and they shape the present and future of the new societies. In the new environment of the market economy these old structures may produce surprising outcomes. - -