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Trots titeln East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture and Society 1943–1991 täcker denna bok alla eight Östeuropas tidigare kommunistiska länder, inklusive »vildarna» Jugoslavien och Albanien som inte kontrollerades av Moskva. I varje land granskar Ramet kronologiskt kommunisternas politik och maktkamp, ekonomiska konsekvenser som industrialisering och jordbrukskollektivisering, men inte minst politikens effekter inom kultursfären, inklusive kyrkorna, samt kvinnornas ställning, vilka är viktiga men ofta försummade ämnen. Hon konkluderar med funktionalisten Robert Mertons terminologi att det kommunistiska systemet inte fungerade i något land med växande missnöje och opposition som icke avsedda eller insedda följder.
Despite its title, East Central Europe and Communism: Politics, Culture and Society 1943–1991, this book covers all eight ex-Communist states in Eastern Europe, including the mavericks Yugoslavia and Albania, which were not controlled by Moscow. Ramet chronologically analyses the communist policies and power struggles in each country, and consequences such as industrialization and collectivisation of agriculture. Not least, she looks at effects in the cultural sphere, including the churches, and the changing situation for women. Ramet concludes, using the sociologist Robert Merton's terminology, that the communist system did not work in any of these countries, and growing disaffection and opposition are among the unintended and actual results.

Denna festskrift innehåller tio informativa artiklar, mest om Georgien, dess språk, historia och samhälle, men också om tjerkesserna och Tjetjenien i det ryska Nordkaukasus, samt om det armeniska folkmordet. De flesta artiklarna är skrivna av georgiska och svenska forskare som är eller varit knutna till forskningsplattformen The Russia and Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR) vid Malmö universitet.
This Festschrift contains ten informative chapters, mainly about Georgia, its language, history and society, but also about the Circassians and Chechnya in the Russian North Caucasus, as well as the Armenian genocide. Most of the contributions are written by Georgian and Swedish scholars associated with the Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR) platform at Malmö University.

Ingmar Oldberg reviews In the North, the East and West Meet. Festschrift for Jens Petter Nielsen, edited by Kari Aga Myklebost and Stian Bones. This book contains 26 articles in Norwegian, English and Russian, starting with a good presentation of Professor Nielsen's life and career. In keeping with his interests, the well annotated articles cover several themes; the centenary of the Russian revolution, Norwegian-Russian relations since the Middle Ages, especially in the High North, Russian arts, and scientific cooperation. The book is beautifully illustrated.