30 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall : Turns and Twists in Economies, Politics, and Societies in the Post-Communist Countries

1. 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Trends and the Current State of Communism and Post-Communism in Europe and Asia -- 2. A Taxonomy of Post-Communist Economies after 30 Years of Reforms -- 3. The Central Asian Countries’ Economies in the Twenty-First Century -- 4. The Post-Communist Transition of the Western Balkans: EUropeanisation with a Small Enlargement Carrot -- 5. Oragnised Crime in—and from—Communist and Post-Communist States -- 6. US-Russia Relations in the Last 30 Years: From a Rapprochement to a Meltdown -- 7. Russia’s Growing Relationship with Iran: Strategic or Tactical? -- 8. Energy Integration in the Eurasian Economic Union: A Preliminary Study on Progress and Policy Implications -- 9. Mediating Populist Discourse in Russia via YouTube: The Case of Alexey Navalny -- 10. Why Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan Are Not Singapore: Comparing the First 25 Years of Reforms -- 11. Money Can’t Buy Me Love, But It Can Buy Apples: An Analysis of Fruit and Vegetable Demand in Uzbekistan -- 12. Squandering Remittances Income in Conspicuous Consumption? -- 13. Equal Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Language Dilemmas in the Context of the Post-Socialist Reforms in Central Asia -- 14. The Horrors of Exclusion: Zygmunt Bauman’s Sociological Journey -- 15. Failures and Successes: Soviet and Chinese State-Socialist Reforms in the Face of Global Capitalism -- 16. Legal Continuity and Change: Two Russian Revolutions and Perestroika through the Prism of Kelsen’s Grundnorm and Hart’s Secondary Rules -- 17. ‘Fleeing Communism’: Yugoslav and Vietnamese Post-War Migration to Australia and Changes to Immigration Policy.