William Outhwaite & Larry Ray 
Social Theory and Postcommunism [PDF ebook] 

Preface.
Introduction: Being Taken By Surprise.
1 Theory After the Fall.
2 Class: Marx and Weber.
3 Society, Solidarity and Anomie: Durkheim.
4 Three Types of Convergence.
5 Socialism, modernity and beyond.
6 Globalization and Convergence.
7 Civil Society East and West.
8 Modernity, memory and postcommunism.
9 Concluding Themes.
Index

William Outhwaite is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Sussex. His recent publications include The
Sociology of Politics (co-edited with Luke Martell, 1998) and
The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (Blackwell
2002). He also acts as Associate Editor of the European Journal
of Social Theory.
Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Kent. He has recently published Theorizing Classical
Sociology (1999) and Key Contemporary Social Theorists
(co-edited with Anthony Elliott, Blackwell 2002). He has done
extensive work and research on the crisis and transformation of
postcommunist societies.