abstract: This paper provides a comparative analysis of postsocialist civil societies in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).Rather than treating "postsocialist civil society" as a singular category, the analysis highlights its heterogeneous nature by comparing five regions in CEE: the Baltic States, the Visegrd Group, Former Yugoslavia, Southeast Europe, and the Post-Soviet States.Beginning with a critical review of the extensive scholarly literature on civil society and contentious politics in the region, 
journal: New Europe College Yearbook