Preface

I. Introduction

Integration of the Processes and Components of Transition to Democracy

Barbara Wejnert

II. Impact on Politics

McCarthyism Has a New Name---Lustration: A Personal Recount of Political Events

Jan Kavan

The Contribution of Collective Protests to the Softening of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe

Barbara Wejnert

A Line of Blood: How December 1970 Prepared Polish Workers for Political Transition in 1989

Jack M. Bloom

III. Impact on Economy

Transitional Economies and Income Inequality: The Case of Estonia

Nancy Brandon Tuma

Mikk Titma

Rein Murakas

Fiscal Policy and Capital Formation in Transition Economies

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

Privatization Politics in Russia: Success or Failure? Privatization and the Development of Corporate Governance Structure

Alexei Makeshin

IV. Social Problems and Policy Issues

Nouveaux Riches Versus Nouveaux Pauvres: Policymaking in Transition Economies

Grzegorz W. Kolodko

Vision of the Polish Working Class: A Well-Ordered Economy

Juliusz Gardawski

A Country in Transition: Health Crisis in Ukraine, with a Focus on Tobacco and Alcohol

Lara A. Romaniuk

Polish Women During Transition to Democracy: A Preliminary Research Report

J. Mayone Stycos

Barbara Wejnert

Zbigniew Tyszka

V. Impact on Culture

Cultural and Civic Movements Prefiguring the Breakdown of the Socialist Regime in Yugoslavia

Stjepan Gredelj

The Artist's Freedom and Democracy

Maria Nowakowska Stycos

Grazyna Borkowska

The Politics of Architecture and the Architecture of Politics

Sergei Zherebkin

Barbara Wejnert

VI. Concluding Remarks

The Impact of Democratic Transitions on Politics, Economy and Culture: Lessons from Eastern Europe and Russia

Barbara Wejnert

Selected Bibliography

Index

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