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Acknowledgements Foreword by George Soros Introduction by Sven Eliaeson I. PERSPECTIVES ON CIVIL SOCIETY Sven Reichardt: Civil Society: Notes on the Revival of a Concept Lawrence A Scaff: Civil Society and Its Discontents: Reflections on the North American Experience Jiri Musil: Comments on Reichardt and Scaff II. THE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN TRANSITIONAL SOCIETIES. George Kolankiewicz: Democracy, Inequality and State Crisis Sally N Cummings and Ole Norgaard: State-society relations: a comparison of six post-communist countries Henryk Domanski: The Middle Class in Transition from Communism to Capitalist Society Nikolai Genov: Transforming Leviathan in South Eastern Europe. Sidonia Jedrzejewska: Bringing 'class' and 'interest group' back in - Edmund Mokrzycki on civil society David Lane: Explaining the Transformation: Revolution, Class and Elites Wolfgang Natter: Glocalization, Civil Identity, and Theories of Difference Slawomir Nalecz and Jerzy Bartkowski: Is there an Organisational Base for Civil Society in Central Eastern Europe? Social and Economic Potentials of Civil Society Organisations in CEE after 1989 Christopher Adair-Toteff: Weber, Eastern Europe, and Civil Society III. THE PERILS OF TRANSITOLOGY - THE ROLE OF INTELLECTUALS Zygmunt Bauman: How to be a Sociologist and a Humanist? Sociology as a vocation in liquid-modern times Andrzej Zybertowicz: Hidden Actors, Overlooked Dimensions and Blind Intellectuals. Radoslaw Sojak: The Enchantment of the Social Stephen P Turner: Was Real existing Socialism Merely a Premature Form of Rule by Experts? IV. COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Axel Hadenius: Democratic Consolidation in Third Wave Democracies. Li Bennich-Bjorkman: Building Post-Communist States: Political Corruption and Strategies of Party formation in Estonia and Latvia Helmut Steiner: Similarities and Differences in the Social Reality and Sociological Analysis of Russia with Poland and Hungary Chris Bryant: Third-Way Politics, Sceptical Voters, Insecure Societies Joanna Kurczewska: National Myths, Pro-Socialist Capitalism, and the Old and New Mythmakers Hartmut Kaelble: Civil society. The concept and the European level. V. DEMOCRACY EAST OF THE ELBE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS: Lena Kolarska-Bobinska: Institutional modernization - a third stage of Polish transformation Andrzej Rychard: Threats to Democracy: on some Polish paradoxes Kristian Gerner: Building Civil Society and Democracy East of Elbe: Problems and Prospects Marek Ziolkowski: Democracy, memory and forgiving. Paradoxes of dealing with the past in postcommunist transitional societies. The Polish case Bibliography Index
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