Download or read book Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe written by Marilyn Rueschemeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Communist period, in most of these contries, even women with small children typically worked outside the home, and their participation in formal institutions was virtually mandatory. Today, as they are being disproportionately affected by marketization, downsizing, the dramatic erosion of social services, and as their sons are being drafted to participate in an unending series of border wars, have women found a new political voice?