ABSTRACT
In the first chapter we addressed the question whether post-socialist transformation would result in East European countries entering the uniform Westernized modernization trend or produce something different. This is the questions that we consider to be the major one in our study. If the latter is the case, what are the peculiarities that would allow one to describe post-transformational uniqueness? In other words, what are we dealing with at the end of transformation – Westernized, modernized and globalized society or post-transformation society, a specific form clearly distinguishable from the former?
