Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Civil Society: Notes on the Revival of a Concept; 3. Civil Society and its Discontents; 4. Comments on Reichardt and Scaff; 5. Democracy, Inequality and State Crisis; 6. State-society Relations; 7. The Middle Class in Transition from Communism to Capitalist Society; 8. Transforming Leviathan in South Eastern Europe; 9. Bringing "Class" and "Interest Group" Back in; 10. Explaining the Transformation from State Socialism.

1. The Climate of Globalization12. Is there an Organisational Base for Civil Society in Central Eastern Europe?; 13. Weber, Eastern Europe, and Civil Society; 14. How to be a Sociologist and a Humanist?; 15. Hidden Actors, Overlooked Dimensions and Blind Intellectuals; 16. The Enchantment of the Social; 17. Was "Real Existing Socialism" Merely a Premature form of Rule by Experts?; 18. Democratic Consolidation in Third Wave Democracies; 19. Building Post-communist States.

2. Similarities and Differences in the Social Reality and Sociological Analysis of Russia Compared with Poland and Hungary21. Third-way Politics, Sceptical Voters, Insecure Societies; 22. National Myths, Pro-socialist Capitalism, and the Old and New Mythmakers; 23. Civil Society; 24. Institutional Modernization; 25. Threats to Democracy; 26. Building Civil Society and Democracy East of the Elbe; 27. Democracy, Memory and Forgiving; Index.

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