Post-Communist Societies

Catalog description

Analysis of divergent scenarios of post-communist social transformation, primarily in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Discussion of the history of communist societies, changing social institutions, and social stratification in the post-communist contexts. Examines post-communist space and mobility, class and gender inequalities, political democratization, youth culture and prospects, crime, global connections of the transformation, human rights and civil society, security and conflict, religion and ethnicity, and the changing family.