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This book deals with the transformations or “transitions” that countries of Central and Eastern Europe have undergone since the political upheavals and breakdowns of 1989. To explore that abundant set of varied and complex processes it has adopted a particular point of view consisting in questioning also the way in which social sciences have approached these transformations, have interpreted them and how, in return, they have felt their impact and had to modify their questions and their modes of explanation.
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Dobry, M. (2000). Introduction: When Transitology Meets Simultaneous Transitions. In: Dobry, M. (eds) Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe. The GeoJournal Library, vol 55. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4162-8_1
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