First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book examines the democratic changes that took place in civil society in Central and Eastern Europe after the break up of the Soviet Union.

This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local relations and to create a stable and viable form of federalism. Federal states are much more difficult to set up than unitary ones, and forging a new federal system at the same time as privatising the economy and trying to radically overhaul...