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This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.

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With the fall of communism and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the successor states have faced a historic challenge to create separate, modern democracies from the ashes of the former authoritarian state. This is a series of studies that examine the development of Croatia in the aftermath of communism and the war that marred the transition.

Students of democratic theory have watched the dramatic transformation of Eastern Europe from communism to various forms of democracy. With a blend of theory and empirical analysis, this work offers insight into the processes, challenges, and accomplishments of this area.

Students of democratic theory have watched the dramatic transformation of Eastern Europe from communism to various forms of democracy. With a blend of theory and empirical analysis, this work offers insight into the processes, challenges, and accomplishments of this area.

Explores the historical and cultural diversity of the experience of gender reversal over an exceptional geographical and chronological range.

Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures" is a collection of specially commissioned essays taking a cross-cultural and cross-historical look at the phenomenon of gender change. The contributors document the universality of gender reversals, with chapters ranging from early Christianity, Hindu mythology, ancient Greek rites of Dionysos to Native American traditions and Western theatre. They examine how gender reversals are bound up with taboo, and ...

This 1992 book contains contributions from fifteen of the West's leading scholars of religion in the USSR.