The Political Analysis of Postcommunism Understanding Postcommunist Ukraine by Volodymyr Polokhalo

Transformation is still the order of the day in the polities of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe as they try to forge new identities, new economies, new societies. The Political Analysis of Postcommunism is a collection of articles by political scientists, historians, sociologists, philosophers, and others, each writing on a particular aspect of the transformation of society from communist to postcommunist forms.

Originally published, in English and Ukrainian, in 1995 in Kiev by the editors of the Ukrainian journal Political Thought, this volume presents the first-person views of people who have lived the experience of communism. Filled with original ideas and with experiences rarely available to western readers, the book presents cogent and often provocative views of what may be the most major change of the late twentieth century.

Most of the authors are Ukrainian scholars, but the credits also include Zbigniew Brzezinski; Sherman W. Garnett of the Carnegie Endowment; James E. Mace, now director of the Ukrainian Peoples Institute of Genocide Studies; Anna Makolkin of the University of Toronto; and Georges Mink and Jean-Charles Szurek of the National Center for Scholarly Research, France.

Topics include the stages of postcommunist transformation, Ukrainian-Russian relations and western policy, the geopolitical implication of ethnopolitics, the foreseeable future of the transformation, and adaptation strategies of former communist elites.

VOLODYMYR POLOKHALO is editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian journal Political Thought and docent in the Department of History, Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine.

Number Six: Eastern European Studies

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The Political Analysis of Postcommunism
0-89096-783-0 paper $21.95x

LC 97-41505. 384 pp.
Eastern Europe.
North American rights.

Publication Date: September 1997.

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