
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

30 Years after the Berlin Wall Fell, only 38% of East Germans see Reunification as a Success.

Our Take on the Social Consequences of Transition for Project Syndicate
