Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup

The Editors’ introduction to “Civil Society After Communism.” 

October 2002 brought the latest in a series of “critical” elections that have helped to point the way to an independent, more democratic future.

For countries emerging from communism, the post-1989 imperative to “be like the West” has generated discontent and even a “return of the repressed,” as the region feels old nationalist stirrings…