Introduction and theoretical framework / András Bozóki and John T. Ishiyama
Constraints and opportunities in the strategic conduct of post-Communist successor parties : regime legacies as causal argument / Herbert Kitschelt
Prospects and limits of new social democracy in the transitional societies of Central Europe / János Ladányi and Iván Szelényi
The Polish SLD in the 1990s : from opposition to incumbents and back / Radoslaw Markowski
The Hungarian socialists : technocratic modernization or new social democracy? / András Bozóki
The troubled evolution of Slovakia's ex-Communists / Sharon Fisher
The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia after 1989 : subcultural party to neocommunist force? / Sean Hanley
The PDS : regional party or a second Social-Democratic Party in Germany? / Dieter Segert
The Romanian postcommunist parties : a story of success / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
The Yugoslav left parties : continuities of Communist tradition in the Milošević era / Srbobran Branković
The metamorphosis of the Communist Party of Lithuania / Diana Janusauskiené
The Russian KPRF : the powerlessness of the powerful / Richard Sakwa
A typology of Communist successor parties : an overview / John T. Ishiyama
Doomed to be radicals? : organization, ideology, and the Communist successor parties in East Central Europe / Daniel F. Ziblatt and Nick Biziouras
The return of the left and democratic consolidation in Poland and Hungary / Valerie Bunce
The effects of Communist Party transformation on the institutionalization of party systems / Anna Grzymala-Busse
Changing cleavage structure and the Communist successor parties of the Visegrád countries / Michael Bauer
Mainstreaming extremism : the Romanian PDSR and the Bulgarian Socialists in comparative perspective / Jeffrey Stevenson Murer
Organizational strength divorced from power : comparing the Communist parties of the Russian Federation and Ukraine / Barbara Ann Chotiner
An unfinished story : toward explaining the transformation of the Communist successor parties / John T. Ishiyama and András Bozóki.