How Different Are the Postcommunist Transitions?

Issue Date October 1996
Volume 7
Issue 4
Page Numbers 15-29
file Print
arrow-down-thin Download from Project MUSE
external View Citation

Read the full essay here.

About the Author

Ghia Nodia is professor of political science at Ilia State University and director of the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Democracy.

View all work by Ghia Nodia

Further Reading

Volume 11, Issue 2

Eastern Europe: The International Context

Nowhere else has the impact of international factors on democratization been as apparent as in Central and Eastern Europe. Integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures is one particularly strong democratizing…

Volume 30, Issue 3

The Rise of an “Outsider” President

A comic actor’s triumph in Ukraine’s free and competitive 2019 presidential race reflects distrust of establishment elites and a deep desire for change.

Volume 25, Issue 1

Albania: From Bunkers to Ballots

After a half-century of brutal communist rule and two decades of troubled postcommunist life, this small Balkan state surprised many by achieving a successful turnover of power by means of the…