New Review in Slavic Review
New review in Czech
Bulgaria's Population Falls 11.5 Percent In Decade
New interview at Berlin’s Zentrum für Osteuropa und Internationale Studien
A Meet the Author interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein appeared on the center’s webpage.
New Op-Ed for PS
Why Won't Eastern Europeans Get Vaccinated?
Nov 8, 2021
KRISTEN GHODSEE, MITCHELL A. ORENSTEIN
The region’s high degree of vaccine skepticism and surging death rates do not reflect the lingering effects of decades of communist rule, but rather the decades-long social consequences of its collapse. Many countries in the region have not yet reversed the profound erosion of public trust that began after 1989.
New podcast interview
Great review of Taking Stock of Shock
Letter: Eastern Europe’s economic success has political costs
Social Europe article about our book
Sheri Berman reviews Taking Stock of Shock to show how the post-communist left embraced neoliberalism and left the door open for an authoritarian, statist version of populism to thrive.
New Podcast with Mitchell A. Orenstein
Kindle version of Taking Stock of Shock now available
Russian version of the first review
Making Sense Of Red Nostalgia
Video from our book launch at FPRI
The Neoliberal Perspective . . . Transition Was a Huge Success
East Europe will see Europe’s oldest and fastest declining population
Letter in the Financial Times
Letter: EBRD must own up to the failure of its policies by Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein, December 5, 2019