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The women interviewed in this book were born and went to school during the communist period, but their adult work and family identities were forged under the very different circumstances of the post-communist transition to a market economy and a democracy. They represent the first group of young adults who are old enough to participate in societal transformations, but not old enough to have become committed to previous social arrangements. As in any revolutionary transition, there have been both continuities and discontinuities with the past, since historical legacies have influenced the course of the transition to capitalism.
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Heitlinger, A., Trnka, S. (1998). The Broader Context. In: Young Women of Prague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14359-7_2
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