Author: Elena Korosteleva
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: belarus, postcommunist
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-03
List price: $88.00
ISBN-10: 074253555X
ISBN-13: 9780742535558

Belarus is one of the least-studied European states to emerge from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Nevertheless, Belarus constitutes an important and sensitive border region between Russia and the western part of the continent. In Postcommunist Belarus, a stellar group of contributors offers an important, coherent, and comparative perspective on this little-known country.

Author: Paul Hollander
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: postcommunist, postmodern, discontents
Number of Pages: 430
Published: 2002-01-21
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 076580090X
ISBN-13: 9780765800909

What ails people at the present time in Western and especially American society is an inexhaustible subject. Discussion of these discontents in the United States in the last decade of the twentieth century leads to an obvious question: How much and what kind of discontents are possible in a society that has experienced over a decade of economic growth, close to full employment, hardly any inflation, falling crime rates, declining teenage pregnancies, and other good things? Is there anything to worry about in a country that has become the undisputed superpower of the world and no longer faces a

Author: John K. Cox
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: states, nations, postcommunist, loyalties, evolving, slovenia
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2005-07-19
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415274311
ISBN-13: 9780415274319

A clear and concise introduction to contemporary Slovenia. It examines the country’s rapid transition from a collection of provinces in the southern part of the Habsburg Empire, to a republic within Yugoslavia, to an independent state and analyzes the major political and economic developments since 1991. The perfect introduction to one of Europe’s most fascinating nations.

Author: Thomas Lane
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: states, nations, postcommunist, westward, stepping, lithuania
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2002-08-23
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415267315
ISBN-13: 9780415267311

Lithuania restored her independence, after half a century of Soviet occupation, in the immediate aftermath of the failed Moscow coup in August 1991. As the multi-national Soviet state disintegrated Lithuania evolved, without war or violence, from a communist state and a command economy to a liberal democracy, a free market, and a society guaranteeing human and minority rights. Lithuania therefore offers a notable example of peaceful transition, all the more impressive in the light of the bloody conflict elsewhere in the former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia, where the aspirations to independence o

Author: Stephen D. Roper
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: states, nations, postcommunist, revolution, unfinished, romania
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-05-01
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9058230279
ISBN-13: 9789058230270

The Romanian revolution was motivated by a desire for greater political and intellectual freedom and economic prosperity. It was the bloodiest of the eastern European transitions due to Ceausescu’s cult of personality. However, many of the goals of the revolution are still unfulfilled. The lack of civil society, charges of political corruption, the failure to transform the economy, and concerns over the protection of ethnic minority rights are all factors in Romania’s failure to become a fully integrated European country. Tracing the country’s political history and examining

Author: Neil Robinson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: states, nations, postcommunist, uncertainty, state, russia
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2001-12-16
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 0415271134
ISBN-13: 9780415271134

Over the last hundred years, Russia has undergone a succession of failed projects of state construction - from Tzarist modernisation to Soviet state socialism to liberal democratic market capitalism. This new book introduces these vastly different projects and explains their failure in order to illuminate the common problems of balancing social and economic transformation with political stability that Russia’s rulers have faced during the twentieth century.Russia: A State of Uncertainty traces Russia’s complex historical development in the last century, as well as its recent politi

Author: David Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: states, nations, postcommunist, integration, independence, european, estonia
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2002-08-23
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415267285
ISBN-13: 9780415267281

In 1998, Estonia became the first of the former Soviet republics to enter membership negotiations with the European Union. Since then it has been hailed as ’the model pupil’ amongst the current applicants. This study traces the remarkable reforms that have propelled Estonia from the USSR to the threshold of the EU in less than a decade. The work also explores the tensions inherent in the concept of a postcommunist ’return to Europe’. Since 1991, membership of western transnational organizations has been consistently portrayed as the best guarantee of Estonia’s ind