A new issue of Studies of Transition States and Societies is out, including Raj Kollmorgen (Bremen): Theories of Postcommunist Transformation: Approaches, Debates, and Problems of Theory Building in the Second Decade of Research. From Names, Anastasiya Astapova (Tartu): De-abbreviations: From Soviet Union to Contemporary Belarus. Sergiu Gherghina (Frankfurt) and George Jiglau (Babe-Bolyai): Outside the Government: Why Ethnic Parties Fail to Join the Post-Communist Cabinets. Andras Laszlo Pap (CEU): Street Police Corruption: A Post-Communist State of the Art. Michal Valco (Zilina): Communism as a Christian Heresy: A False and Failed Prophecy of an Ideology. Linda Kinstler on what the supermarket collapse in Latvia tells us about a country at a crossroads. Paul Mutter on Belarus, North Korean Europe (and more). Does Europe need Ukraine? Anton Shekhovtsov on how the Ukrainian revolution is European and national. Germany spends more than 20 million euros per year on helping ethnic Germans living in Eastern Europe as "an expression of special historical responsibility" for their suffering after World War II. Dalibor Rohac on the rise and decline of Slovak libertarianism. Scenes from a revolution: Dick Virden on Romania after the fall. Tim Judah goes to Sarajevo to see how it has coped with the memory of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand down the decades. Robert Baker on poor Albania — after communism. Daniel M. Knight reviews Macedonia: The Political, Social, Economic and Cultural Foundations of a Balkan State. Flailing capital of Kitsch: The Macedonian government has spent huge sums turning its capital, Skopje, into a neo-baroque architectural nightmare.
