East European Quarterly articles from September 2007

East European Quarterly archives from September 2007

Reconstructing a legal basis for capitalist labor relations in post-revolutionary Romania.
September 22, 2007... Economic and Political Reform in Early Post-Ceausescu Romania In December 1989, a rebellion broke out in Romania's largest city of the Banat region, Timisoara. This rebellion resulted in significant loss of lives and property and quickly...

Moldova, Transnistria and the PCRM's turn to the west.
September 22, 2007... Introduction In 2001 the Communist Party of the Republic of Moldova (PCRM) became the first orthodox communist party to be elected back into power since the fall of the former Soviet Union. The Moldovan communists assumed control over a...

Orthodox Church divisions in newly independent Ukraine, 1991-1995.
September 22, 2007... The Orthodox Church has played a prominent role in Ukrainian life and culture since the Christianization of Kievan Rus in 988. Historical developments in the pre-Soviet centuries and the Soviet period illustrate the centrality of the Eastern...

Friends and foes: informal networks in the Soviet Union (1).
September 22, 2007... The course of the Russian reforms during the 1990s has been a profound disappointment to many of the Western neo-liberal economics advisors drawn to the unique opportunity to test their theories in real-life laboratory. (2) Shock therapy...

Allies or partners? An appraisal of Turkey's ties to Russia, 1991-2007.
September 22, 2007... Turkey's ties to Russia have received considerable attention in the recent past. Since the end of the Cold War scholars, observers and policy-makers have shed lots of ink trying to make sense of various aspects of the tics between Turkey and...