Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Charles Walker is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton, UK, and Honorary Research Associate at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK. Svetlana Stephenson is Reader in Sociology at London Metropolitan University.

• 1. Introduction: Youth and social change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Charles Walker, University of Southampton & Svetlana Stephenson, London Metropolitan University. 2. The post-revolutionary consumer generation: ‘mainstream’ youth and the paradox of choice in the Czech Republic, Michaela Pyšňáková, Masaryk University, Czech Republic & Steven Miles, University of Brighton. 3. Creating reflexive volunteers? Young people's participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes, Rosie Read, University of Bournemouth. 4. Young people and migration from contemporary Poland, Anne White, University of Bath. 5. From ‘inheritance’ to individualization: disembedding working-class youth transitions in post-Soviet Russia, Charles Walker, University of Southampton 6. Concepts of citizenship, social and system integration among young people in post-Soviet Moldova, Pamela Abbott, University of Aberdeen, Claire Wallace, University of Aberdeen, Marianna Mascauteanu, Independent Sociological Research Institute, Chisinau, Moldova & Roger Sapsford, National University of Rwanda. 7. Ukrainian youth and civic engagement: unconventional participation in local spaces, Antonina Tereshchenko, University of Cambridge. 8. ‘Rocking the vote’: new forms of youth organisations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Dublin City University & Abel Polese University of Edinburgh.