The Experience of Democratization in Eastern Europe

General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Introduction: The Democratic Experience; R.Sakwa Experiences of Democratisation: Elements of a Comparative Historical Framework; A.Szakolczái Gorbachev's Bitter Draft: Failure to Achieve a New Union Treaty, 1988-91; J.Russell Continuity and Change in Historical Thinking in Belarus: some Critical Remarks on Post-Soviet Historiography; R.Lindner Regionalism: An Underestimated Dimension of State-building in Ukraine; G.Nemiria Elites of North-Eastern Kazakjstan in a New Geopolitical Context, 1989-95; N.Melvin Civil Society Endangered; D.N. Nelson The Structuring of Party Systems in Postcommunism: The Roles of Political Process and Social Cleavage; J.Bielasiak The Changing Role of Local Government in the Post-communist Transformation; M.Illner Trade Unions and the Making of Civil Society in Russia; V.Peschanskii The Emerging Order: Bulgarian Experiences with Democracy; R.Daskalov Polish Responses to Global Challenges: Geopolitics of Central and East European Transformation; K.Zielke Cultural Difference: Russia's Putative Entry into the European Union; J.Armstrong The Emergence of Democracy in South Africa and Poland: A Comparative Experience; U.J.van Beek Index