title: SHARON L. WOLCHIK &amp; JANE LEFTWICH CURRY (EDS.), CENTRAL &amp; EAST EUROPEAN POLITICS: FROM COMMUNISM TO DEMOCRACY, THIRD EDITION, PUBLISHED BY ROWMAN &amp; LITTLEFIELD, LANHAM, BOULDER, NEW YORK, LONDON 2015, pp. 550. (REV.)
abstract: after the autumn of nations, the region of Central and Eastern Europe became the stage of dynamic change toward democracy and a free market economy .Within several years, most countries in the region joined nato and Eu, and became examples of effective and rapid transition from authoritarianism to democracy .While bloody armed conflict did break out on the territory of the former yugoslavia, the dayton accords of 1995 put an end to the fighting and the post-yugoslav countries also embarked on th
journal: The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies