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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Socialism -- Liberalism: Dissident Illusions and Disillusions -- Five Faces of Post-Dissident Hungarian Liberalism: A Study in Agendas, Concepts, and Ambiguities -- "Totalitarianism" and the Limits of Polish Dissident Political Thought: Late Socialism and After -- Václav Havel, His Idea of Civil Society, and the Czech Liberal Tradition -- The (Re-)Emergence of Constitutionalism in East-Central Europe -- Conservatism: A Counter-Revolution? -- Anti-Communism of the Future: Czech Post-Dissident Neoconservatives in Post-Communist Transformation -- Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience: Polish Conservatism 1979-2011 -- The Abortion of a "Conservative" Constitution-Making: A Discourse Analysis of the 1994-1998 Failed Hungarian Constitution-making Enterprise -- Populism: Endemic Pasts and Global Effects -- Syndrome or Symptom: Populism and Democratic Malaise in Post-Communist Romania -- The Illusion of Inclusion: Configurations of Populism in Hungary -- The Political Lives of Dead Populists in Post-Socialist Slovakia -- The Left: Between Communist Legacy and NeoliberalChallenge -- Non-Post-Communist Left in Hungary after 1989: Diverging Paths of Leftist Criticism, Civil Activism, and Radicalizing Constituency -- The Architecture of Revival: Left-wing Ideas and Politics in Poland after 2002 -- The Formation of the Czech Post-Communist Intellectual Left: Twenty Years of Seeking an Identity -- Feminist Criticism of the "New Democracies" in Serbia and Croatia in the First Half of the 1990s -- Politics of History: Nations, Wars, Revolutions -- 1989 After 1989: Remembering the End of Communism in East-Central Europe -- A Fate for a Nation: Concepts of History and the Nation in Hungarian Politics, 1989-2010.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- 1. Coalitions in Times of Crisis -- 2. Concepts and Measurements -- 3. Fragility of Coalition Governance in Bulgaria -- 4. Regularity and Instability: Coalition Governments in Czechia 2008-2022 -- 5. Estonia: The Breakdown of the Exclusionary Logic in Coalition Formation -- 6. Hungary: Party Alliances and Personal Coalitions -- 7. Latvia: Populist Wind of Change -- 8. Lithuania: Ministerial Government and the EU Factor -- 9. Poland: Resilience to the External Crisis, Permanent Coalition Patterns, and Weakening of the Position of the Prime Minister -- 10. Live Fast, Die Young: Romanian Coalitions in Time of Crisis -- 11. Slovakia: Gradual Settlement of Rules in an Unstable Environment -- 12. Slovenia: Newcomers as Prime Ministers. A New Mode of Coalition Governance? -- 13. New Patterns of Coalition Politics in Central and Eastern Europe? -- Index.

The author began working in Eastern Europe in connection with his project to study the impact of U.S. constitutionalism following the U.S. constitutional bicentennial in 1987. This led him to organize a conference on constitutionalism in Eastern Europe in 1990 and to collaborate in projects on the progress of constitutionalism in the region since that time. The question the author addresses is whether the constitutional promise apparent in 1989 and following has been fulfilled two decades later.

First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev's perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One POLITICS OF MEMORY AND CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY -- European Mass Killing and European Commemoration -- Why World War II Memories Remain So Troubled in Europe and East Asi -- Post-Authoritarian Memories in Europe and Latin America -- Divided Memory Revisited: The Nazi Past in West Germany and in Postwar Palestine -- On the Relationship Between Politics of Memory and the State's Attitude toward the Communist Past -- Part Two HISTORIES AND THEIR PUBLICS -- Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice -- Promotion of a Usable Past: Official Efforts to Rewrite Russo-Soviet History, 2000-2014 -- Germany's Two Processes of "Coming to Terms with the Past" -Failures, After All? -- Part Three SEARCHING FOR CLOSURE IN DEMOCRATIZING SOCIETIES -- Twenty-Five Years "After" -- The Ambivalence of Settling Accounts with Communism: The Polish Case -- The Romanian Revolution in Court: What Narratives About 1989? -- Slobodan Milošević in the Hague: Failed Success of a Historical Trial -- The South African Transition: Then and Now -- Scholarship and Public Memory: The Presidential Commissionfor the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania(PCACDR) -- Moldova under the Soviet Communist Regime: History and Memory -- Part Four COMPETING NARRATIVES OF TROUBLED PASTS -- Coming to Terms with Catholic-Jewish Relations in the Polish Catholic Church -- After Communism: Identity and Morality in the Baltic Countries -- The Romanian Communist Past and the Entrapment of Polemics -- Past Intransient/Transiting Past: Remembering the Victims and the Representation of Communist Past in Bulgaria -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Going Beyond Post-Communist Studies -- Post-Communist Studies and Democratic Consolidation -- Paradigms in Communist Studies -- Democratic Consolidation -- Democratic Consolidation's Research Agenda -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter Two: The Study of Post-Communist Politics -- Stateness -- Democracy and the Market -- Bringing the State In -- Strategic Choice and Post-Communist Studies -- Path Dependency and Post-Communist Studies -- Institutionalism and Post-Communist Studies

Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia/Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania. The authors analyse the challenge of building democracy in the countries of the former Yugoslavia riven by conflict, and in neighboring states. They focus on oppositional activity, political cultures that often favour strong presidentialism, the role of nationalism, and basic socioeconomic trends. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott provide theoretical and comparative chapters on post communist political development across the region. This book will provide students and scholars with detailed analysis by leading authorities, plus the latest research data on recent political and economic developments in each country

The revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe were the result of communism's economic & moral failures. While the former had been well understood & studied for a long time, the latter, because they were difficult to measure or even grasp, were not. For that reason, the revolutions of 1989 were quite unexpected. It is suggested that most fashionable social science theories about revolution, which have been almost entirely based on materialistic theories & on class analysis, have been missing a key aspect of all revolutionary situations, ie, moral outrage. Modified AA