Russia and Eastern Europe after communism : the search for new political, economic, and security systems
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Russia and Eastern Europe after communism : the search for new political, economic, and security systems
WestviewPress, 1996
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Examining the main challenges confronting Russia and Eastern Europe, this multi-disciplinary work considers the constitutional, political, economic, security and national identity issues facing these post-communist societies. US and Russian specialists assess the achievements and costs of the continuing economic and political transformation, and discuss the prospects for a thriving civil society as well as for the region's integration into European and global economic and security institutions.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Prospects for civil society and the rule of law: post-Soviet constitutionalism - politics and constitution-making in Russia and the Ukraine, Robert Sharlet
- endangered citizenship, Julie Mostov
- prospects for democracy in Russia, Robert V. Daniels. Part 2 The economic transformation - assessments and projections: external transformation in the post-communist economies - overview and progress, Ben Slay
- it's deja vu all over again - Russia's economic reforms in the 1920s and 1990s, Nikolai Shmelev
- demise of the moral imperative - agricultural reform in Russia today, David A.J. Macey
- shock therapy and Russia - why did it fail?, Padma Desai
- is Russia's inflation inevitable?, Vladimir Popov. Part 3 States in transition - from dissolution to consolidation: the political geography of transition, R.D. Liebowitz
- the soft state and the emergence of Russian regional politics, Peter J. Stavrakis
- internal enemies, external enemies - the tragedy of post-Soviet Georgia, Robert English
- foreign policy, the Slovak quest for "sovereignty", and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992, M. Kraus
- ghosts from the past? - German political culture in transition and the return of the communists, Laurence McFalls. Part 4 The transformation of the international system: sovereignty, self-determinism and stability in the contemporary inter-state system, Russell J. Leng
- Russia and the West from Cold War to what?, Robert C. Tucker
- courting the generals - the impact of Russia's constitutional crisis on Yeltsin's foreign policy, Allison K. Stanger
- the price of a bleacher seat - Eastern Europe's entry into the world political economy, Ronald H. Linden.
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