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Three Generations of Research on Post Communist Politics—A
This essay outlines theoretical visions or paradigms that have underpinned empirical
and historical work on the great transformation in Central and Eastern Europe. Such
paradigms shaped “sociological imaginations” and analytical lenses through which
scholars generated important questions and developed their research interests and projects.
The study of post-communism was influenced by three such paradigms: the first
focused on the immediate communist past as the main constraint on post-1989 transformations;
the second attempted to transcend the specificities of post-communism and
integrate the study of the region with the general comparative politics enterprise; and
finally, the third signified the return to a disciplined exploration of historical and cultural
contexts and their role in shaping the outcomes of transformations.
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