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Product Description: Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust. But trust is a delicate matter, not least in the former socialist countries where illegitimate behaviour by governments made distrust a habit. The chapters in this volume analyze the causes and the effects of the lack of social trust in post-socialist countries...read more

Product Description: The collapse of the Soviet Union was part of a tumultuous process of imperial disintegration, new state-building, and potential imperial reconstruction unprecedented in recent decades. The daunting task of understanding the forces now in motion in Eurasia requires historical, comparative, interdisciplinary insights...read more

Product Description: With the downfall of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and continuing political turmoil inside the Soviet Union, the question of the relationship of socialism to democracy is more urgent than ever. In the West, too, technological advance and the changing nature of civil society pose, to socialists...read more