Download or read book Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe written by Marilyn Rueschemeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen contributions seek to explore what has happened to women during the various stages of transition from communism to a market economy and multiparty political system. Contributors are social scientists attempting to understand the relations of political institutions to the emerging conception of women's place in the new social and political orders. Countries studied include Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, Hungary, Romania, the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, and Albania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR