Transition to democracy in Eastern Europe and Russia : impact on politics, economy, and culture / edited by Barbara Wejnert.

Contents Integration of the processes and components of transition to democracy / Barbara Wejnert -- 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 -- Transitional economics and income inequality: the case of Estonia / Nancy Brandon Tuma, Mikk Titma and 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 -- Nouveaux riches versus Nouveaux pauvres: policymaking in transition economies / Grzegorz W. Kolodko -- Vision of the Polish working class: a well-ordered economy / Juluisz 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 and Zbigniew Tyszka -- Cultural and civic movements prefiguring the breakdown of the socialist regime in Yugoslavia / Stjepan Gredelj -- The artist's freedom and democracy / Maria Nowakowska Stycos and Grazyna Borkowska -- The politics of architecture and the architecture of politics / Sergei Zherebkin and Barbara Wejnert -- The impact of democratic transitions on politics, economy, and culture: lessons from Eastern Europe and Russia / Barbara Wejnert.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 349-354) and index.
LCCN 00052871
ISBN0275972348 (alk. paper)