Cultural Formations Of PostcommunismA powerful exposition of how culture shapes social and political change. "Transition" is the name typically given to the time of radical change following the fall of communism, connoting a shift from planned to market economy, from dictatorship to democracy. Transition is also, in Michael Kennedys analysis, a culture in its own right with its own contentions, repressions, and unrealized potentials. By elaborating transition as a culture of power and