Description: The book consists of papers of eminent sociologists and political scientists on transition to democracy in East European countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ex-Yugoslavia and Romania. The topics include collaboration, resistance, peasantry, intellectuals, tradition, nationalism, communist parties, Central Europe and dissidents.
Review Quotes: «This volume is recommended to a wide range of historians, sociologists and political scientists interested in the history of system transition in Eastern Europe.»
(Patryk Wasiak, Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 64/2015)