Abstract
Abstract The aim of this study was to present the general situation of populations of European post-communist countries 25 years after the collapse of communism in Europe. The study consists of two parts. The first one briefly discusses the processes that led to a significant diversification in the social, economic and political situations of the populations of the studied countries. In the second part the diversity of this situation is shown (using: the Legatum Prosperity Index, the Social Progress Index, and the Human Development Index). It was found that the best situations exist in the countries which quickly and effectively implemented reforms, and whether they were independent states, or parts of larger states, under communism is of secondary importance. It is symptomatic that these are countries situated in the north-western part of the area under consideration, which corresponds to the current situation in the EU-15, where the countries located in the south (the so-called PIGS) have poor economic and partly social situations than those in the north. Furthermore, it was found that the situation with the population of Russia is worse than in many countries which were previously under the occupation of the USSR or were dependent on the authorities in Moscow.
Highlights
The objective of the study was to present the social, economic and political situations of societies of European post-communist countries 25 years after the collapse of communism in Europe
The first one generally shows the most important processes that brought about changes in the analysed group of countries, while in the second part an assessment of the standard of living of the citizens of these countries for the year 2014 was made with the use of three indicators: the Legatum Prosperity Index, the Social Progress Index, and the Human Development Index
Atlantic Monthly Press, Boston. http://en.rsf.org/ http://hdr.undp.org/en http://hdr.undp.org/en http://russkiymir.ru/ http://www.heritage.org/ http://www.prosperity.com/#!/ http://www.socialprogressimperative.org/ http://www.transparency.org/
Summary
The objective of the study was to present the social, economic and political situations of societies of European post-communist countries 25 years after the collapse of communism in Europe. The first one generally shows the most important processes that brought about changes in the analysed group of countries, while in the second part an assessment of the standard of living of the citizens of these countries for the year 2014 was made with the use of three indicators: the Legatum Prosperity Index, the Social Progress Index, and the Human Development Index. An additional problem in the former communist its capacity was fictional but after regaining countries was the break in their existing economic independence laws relating to giving it real relationships (STRYJAKIEWICZ, 2004) The declared pro-democratic orientation, Ukrainians Gender Development Index has some of the highest were, deeply related to the totalitarian values[3] in post-Soviet countries: Estonia (1.042), type of political system, which significantly Russia (1.038), Lithuania (1.036), Latvia (1.033), slowed down the process of democratization and Belarus (1.021) and Ukraine (1.012).
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