Strongly affected by modern history and facing dilemmas of modernity Central and Eastern
Europe has been healing fresh wounds for the past 30 years. The present volume analyzes the
contemporary challenges related to the heritage of 1989. The peaceful revolution brought
substantial socio-cultural institutional and strategic transformations setting a long-term
course for Central and Eastern European policymaking. Recently however these legacies namely
the geopolitical aspects of the transformation the policies of collective memory and even
intrasocietal issues have been questioned more than ever. It seems the region is approaching
the end of a revolutionary cycle of transition. This volume tries to investigate this
phenomenon as it unfolds.
