Meandering in Transition

Ostap Kushnir is assistant professor at Lazarski University (Poland) and a lecturer with Coventry University programmes (UK)Oleksandr Pankieiev is research coordinator and Editor-in-Chief of the Forum for Ukrainian Studies at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.

• Part I: “Ideas of Europe” and the Post-Communist SpaceChapter 1: Shifting the Wall Further East. What Has Left of the “Eastern Europe” Thirty Years Later? by Mykola RiabchukChapter 2: The Transition of “Transition”: Assessing the Post-Communist Experience and Its Research by Mikhail MinakovChapter 3: Has the Post-Communist Transition Been Completed? Economic Perspective by Assen SlimPart II: Post-Communist Transition and Identity-Building: View From “Within”Chapter 4: Societies in Post-Communist Transition: Polish and Hungarian Experience by Adrian ChojanChapter 5: Exceptional but Different: Navigating Transition in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania by Li Bennich-BjörkmanChapter 6: Czech Republic and Slovakia – Changing Perception of the European Integration Since 1989 by Juraj MarušiakChapter 7: Thirty Years of Post-Communist Nation-Building in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine by Yevhen Mahda and Margaryta KhvostovaChapter 8: Thirty Years After Communism – Bulgaria and Romania’s Experience by Spa

A comprehensive, well-structured, and thoughtful approach to the institutional, social, economic, and cultural transformations of Europe in recent times. The contributors realize the amplitude of these changes and help the readers grasp the short and long term implications of the unfinished European project. This collection of intellectually compelling and analytically insightful chapters is both timely and inspiring.