Democracy and civil society in Eastern Europe

selected papers from the fourth world congress for Soviet and East European studies, harrogate, 1990

Edited by
Paul G. Lewis

Palgrave Macmillan

1992

Abstract

The book presents an informed and wide-ranging examination of issues surrounding the development and future prospects of civil society in Eastern Europe. The contributions, mostly by leading East European scholars, relate the key concept of civil society to the processes that led to the collapse of communism and which bear on prospects for the establishment of a democratic order throughout the region. The development of the concept is related to questions like those surrounding economic policy and reform and the women's movement.