ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the nature of post-socialist (post-communist) change in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It sketches out the key characteristics of this change, particularly drawing attention to the marked differentiation within the region. Post-communist change in CEE has been distinctive compared to that in the other global regions of post-socialism considered in this book, although there are perhaps some similarities with the nature of change in parts of the former Soviet Union.
