The Post-Communist Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Mapping Out the Theme

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   Pages 1-8

3. The Inheritance of the Past and the Revolutions of 1989

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   Pages 9-22

4. History Changes Gear: the Transition in East-Central Europe

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   Pages 23-58

5. Hesitant Beginnings in South-Eastern Europe: a ‘Balkan Lag’?

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   Pages 59-75

6. National Minorities and Ethnic Conflict

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   Pages 76-108

7. The Economic Underpinnings: Tearing down the Old, Building up the New

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   Pages 109-131

8. The Shock of the New: Social Consequences and Costs of Transition

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   Pages 132-149

9. The Middle Years: Drifting towards the Millennium

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   Pages 150-188

10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-236

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History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. This book tells the story of what followed during the 1990s. Political and national conflict, social and cultural change and the economic challenge of the transition to the market are all given their due weight. The comparative approach is combined with a detailed treatment of individual countries in alternating chapters. The distinction is made here between East Central Europe, where the author's conclusions are largely optimistic, and the Balkans, where uncertainty still prevails.

• communism
• conflict
• Europe
• history
• revolution
• russian and post-soviet politics

'...the book is an excellent reading for one semester courses.' - Wisla Suraska, Political Studies

• University of North London, UK

  Ben Fowkes

Ben Fowkes is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of North London.

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