La transizione dell'Europa dell'Est. Dai mutamenti dell'economia all'allargamento europeo

The collapse of the Soviet Union may be considered one of the most important happening of the last fifty years. The 1989 represents the acme of the communist disintegration’s process. At the same time, the fall of communism meant the victory of Western liberal model. The reasons of this historic failure of the socialist pattern could be ascribed to the systemic crisis of the Soviet Union. The repercussions of the collapse of the Soviet system are still ongoing, in the transition of post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe toward democracy.