Russia and Eastern Europe after Communism. The Search for New Political, Economic, and Security Systems

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Part 1 Prospects for civil society and the rule of law: post-Soviet constitutionalism - politics and constitution-making in Russia and the Ukraine, Robert Sharlet endangered citizenship, Julie Mostov prospects for democracy in Russia, Robert V. Daniels. Part 2 The economic transformation - assessments and projections: external transformation in the post-communist economies - overview and progress, Ben Slay it's deja vu all over again - Russia's economic reforms in the 1920s and 1990s, Nikolai Shmelev demise of the moral imperative - agricultural reform in Russia today, David A.J. Macey shock therapy and Russia - why did it fail?, Padma Desai is Russia's inflation inevitable?, Vladimir Popov. Part 3 States in transition - from dissolution to consolidation: the political geography of transition, R.D. Liebowitz the soft state and the emergence of Russian regional politics, Peter J. Stavrakis internal enemies, external enemies - the tragedy of post-Soviet Georgia, Robert English foreign policy, the Slovak quest for and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992, M. Kraus ghosts from the past? - German political culture in transition and the return of the communists, Laurence McFalls. Part 4 The transformation of the international system: sovereignty, self-determinism and stability in the contemporary inter-state system, Russell J. Leng Russia and the West from Cold War to what?, Robert C. Tucker courting the generals - the impact of Russia's constitutional crisis on Yeltsin's foreign policy, Allison K. Stanger the price of a bleacher seat - Eastern Europe's entry into the world political economy, Ronald H. Linden.