Book Reviews : BOB DEACON (ED.) Social Policy, Social Justice and Citizenship in Eastern Europe Aldershot, Avebury, 1992, ISBN 1-85628-2430 BOB DEACON AND NITA CASTLE-KANEROVA, NICK MANNING, FRANCIS MALLARD, EVA OROSZ, JULIA SZALAI, ANNA VIDINOVA:The New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future London, Sage, 1992, ISBN 0-8039-8439-1 (pbk)
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Book ReviewsBOB DEACON (ED.) Social Policy, Social Justice and Citizenship in Eastern Europe Aldershot, Avebury, 1992, ISBN 1-85628-2430 BOB DEACON AND NITA CASTLE-KANEROVA, NICK MANNING, FRANCIS MALLARD, EVA OROSZ, JULIA SZALAI, ANNA VIDINOVAThe New Eastern Europe: Social Policy Past, Present and Future London, Sage, 1992, ISBN 0-8039-8439-1 (pbk) SAGE Publications, Inc.1993DOI: 10.1177/095892879300300210 Volker Ronge University of Wuppertal During the whole post-war period eastern Europe at most was a subject of study for academic specialists, primarily recruited from political science and history. For most sociologists eastern Europe's societies were a tabula rasa only. The end of the Cold War and the breakdown of the Iron Curtain - caused by processes of political change and economic transition in all countries of the former socialist bloc, starting at the end of the 1980s and still ongoing - has radically changed the European world. It has provided an opportunity for the first time for broad scientific attempts at sociological analysis of this area. However, this sociological analysis has no tradition and lacks a conceptual base. It is, therefore, both a challenge and a risky undertaking. This is also true for projects which, for good reasons, intend to bring together scholars of both