20 Years after the Collapse of Communism: Expectations, achievements and disillusions of 1989 (Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe)

Table of Contents
Nicolas Hayoz, Daniela Koleva, and Leszek Jesień - Introduction: Paths of Ambiguous Transformation after 20 Years 9
Part 1: Ambiguities of Unfinished Transformations
	Leszek Jesień - A Sketch on Europeanization with the EU in Focus: Poland 1989–2004–2009 27
	Zhidas Daskalovski - The Influence of EU Conditionality and Europeanization on the Consolidation of Macedonia 49
	Blagovesta Cholova and Daniel Bochsler - From Big Political Change to Permanent Change of Governments. The Logic of 20 Years of Political Party Competition in Central and Eastern Europe 85
	Nicole Gallina and Nicolas Hayoz - Beyond Democracy: The Relevance of Informal Power in Eastern Europe 119
	Valentina Dimitrova-Grajzl - Trust, Path Dependence and Historical Legacy: The Second Decade after Transition 143
	Arben Hajrullahu - The Missing ‘Functional Elite’ and the Challenge of Democratization 167
	Mentor Agani and Remzije Istrefi - The Promise of 1989 – Kosovo’s Lost Treasure 177
	Benedikt Harzl - Nationalism, Democracy and Independence Revisited: The Cases of Kosovo and Abkhazia 203
	Ghia Nodia - External (F)actors in Democratization: Lessons From the Georgian Experience 229
	Giga Zedania - Societal Values in Georgia: Twenty Years Later 253
	Christian Giordano - Mythologies of Postsocialism: The Legends of Revolution and Transition Twenty Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall 273
Part 2: Confronting the Past
	Irina Novikova - Baltic Lieux de mémoire of the 1990s to Early 2000s:  Nostalgia, Trauma, Change 295
	Tomas Kavaliauskas - Different Meanings of May 9th, Victory Day over Nazi Germany for Russia and the Baltic States 319
	Stefan Dietrich - (Re)writing History in the 1990s: Croatia and World War II Politics of Remembrance in Croatia – from the 1990s to the Present Day 337
	Andriy Portnov - Post-Soviet Ukraine and Belarus Dealing with “The Great Patriotic War” 369
	Christophe von Werdt - “Cossacks into State-Builders”–Constructing Historical “Cossack-Statehood”in Ukraine: A Case Study 383
	Krzysztof Brzechczyn - The Forgotten Legacy of Solidarnośćand Lost Opportunities to Build a Democratic Capitalist System Following the Fall of Communism in Poland 395
	Daniela Koleva - Hope for the Past? Postsocialist Nostalgia 20 Years Later 417
	Martin Pogačar - Traces of Yugoslavia: Yuniverse Beyond Nostalgia 435
	Jan Čulík - Current Czech Opinion of the pre-1989 and post-1989 Regimes: Disillusionment with Politics, Regardless of Party Political Allegiances 461
	Jasmina Husanović - Recasting Transitions after The Fall: Global Governance of Trauma and the Politics of Life in Bosnia and Herzegovina 495
Part 3: Texts in Changing Contexts: Values and Meanings
	François Ruegg - High Heels and Blue Jeans. What Are the Visible Signs of Democracy? 521
	Nenad Miscevic - Nation, Border and Territory – Reflecting on Croatian Experiences 537
	Jan Woleński - From Controlled Liberalism to Real Pluralism The Development of Philosophy in Poland at the End of the Communist Era 559
	Maciej Urbanowski - Between a Valley of Joy and a Valley of Nothingness The Year 1989 and Polish Literature 573
	Ioana Both - How to Tell the Truth with Words: Romanian Post-Communist Literature 589
	Michael Müller - Essay and Travelogue. Two Literary Genres that Have Been Rediscovered during the Debate on the Yugoslavian Collapse 609
	Judit Friedrich - Blaming versus Healing: Facing Communist Informers of the Past, and a Literary Example in Péter Esterházy’s Revised Edition 629
	Alexander Kiossev - Crimes Against Everyday Life, or On the Patho-Anthropology of Socialism 647
The Authors 669