The book consists of papers of eminent sociologists and political scientists on transition to democracy in East European countries such as Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, ex-Yugoslavia and Romania. The topics include collaboration, resistance, peasantry, intellectuals, tradition, nationalism, communist parties, Central Europe and dissidents.

The volume brings together a selection of analyses related to the issues of gender and social transition published in the quarterly in the years 1994 to 2006. Articles cover many East Central European countries and apply the lens of gender to politics, law, history, culture and economy.

This volume reflects the discussions during the Princeton University Conference on Polish-Jewish Studies (April 2015). It focuses on the meaning of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, on Polish politics of memory, and on the developments in researching and teaching Polish-Jewish subjects.

The book deals with the history of Russian philosophy and ideas from the Enlightenment to the religious-philosophical renaissance of the first decade of the 20th century. It provides readers with an exhaustive account of relationships between various Russian thinkers and an examination of how those thinkers relate to a number of figures and trends.