Several post-Communist societies muddled their way toward democracy and the market economy.
Still more dangerous is the temptation to insure religion's place in post-Communist societies by tightly linking faith and national identity.
The task of post-Communist society has often been described as that of building or rebuilding "civil society."
Students explore the powerful role of experiential education in rebuilding a vision for the common good in the context of post-communist society.
In many ways post-modernism seems the perfect philosophy for a post-communist society.
How big are division within post-Communist societies according to age, gender, education etc?
Russians have their own special psychoses to work through, he said, issues of disillusionment that are unique to post-Communist society.
That influence, he adds, is vital for the education of post-Communist society.
The reason seems evident: Poles made their own post-Communist society; east Germans had theirs imposed on them.
"Some say that post-Communist society must go through long periods of chaos," he said.