Socialism vanquished, socialism challenged: Eastern Europe and China, 1989-2009

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Contributors -- Introduction: Postsocialist Trajectories in Comparative Perspective -- PART ONE: REINSTITUTIONALIZING POLITICS -- 1. 1989 and Its Aftermath: Two Waves of Democratic Change in Postcommunist Europe and Eurasia -- 2. China Politics 20 Years Later -- PART TWO: RECASTING STATE-SOCIETY RELATIONS -- 3. Postsocialist Cleansing in Eastern Europe: Purity and Danger in Transitional Justice -- 4. Responsive Authoritarianism and Blind-Eye Governance in China -- PART THREE: REFORMING ECONOMIC SYSTEMS

This volume examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions

This volume examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions.

This volume examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions