@article{1418037, note = {Originally published: Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013.}, author = {Heydemann, Gunther, and Vodicka, Karel,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1418037}, title = {From Eastern Bloc to European Union : comparative processes of transformation since 1990 /}, abstract = {"More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states--Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany--that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU."--Provided by publisher.}, recid = {1418037}, pages = {1 online resource (416 pages) :}, }