This volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the effect that political, social and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war has on children.

This disturbing volume probes beneath the rhetoric about system change in the transition societies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to examine the impact of political, social, and economic dislocation, ethnic conflict and civil war on the most population: children.