TY - BOOK ID - 135247107 TI - From Eastern Bloc to European Union : comparative processes of transformation since 1990 AU - Heydemann, Günther AU - Vodička, Karel PY - 2017 SN - 1789208211 PB - New York : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Post-communism KW - Democracy KW - Europe, Eastern KW - Europe, Central KW - European Union countries KW - Politics and government KW - Relations KW - bulgaria. KW - business. KW - comparative approach. KW - czech republic. KW - diplomacy. KW - east germany. KW - economic liberalization. KW - engaging. KW - estonia. KW - eu. KW - europe. KW - european integration. KW - european nations. KW - european union. KW - former soviet republics. KW - history. KW - human condition. KW - hungary. KW - immigration and immigrants. KW - latvia. KW - lithuania. KW - money and power. KW - poland. KW - political ideologies. KW - political intrigue. KW - political science. KW - political. KW - power and wealth. KW - retrospective. KW - revolutionaries. KW - romania. KW - slovakia. KW - slovenia. KW - social issues. KW - social transformations. KW - soviet union. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135247107 AB - "More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states--Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany--that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU."--Provided by publisher. ER -