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With strong support from the Ministry of Education, under the framework of the China-Russia Joint Institute, the School of Advanced International and Area Studies at East China Normal University will hold the third annual international workshop for young academic elites in December 2016 in Shanghai. Workshop Theme “Reflections Post-Soviet Transition +25” Workshop Objectives As unpredictable as the Soviet collapse came to be, so have the transition trajectories of post-communism in the past quarter of century amongst the former Soviet republics and post-communist states of the formerly “Eastern bloc”. Countries in the eastern bloc since 1991 have presented diverging performances in economic development and social and political transformation. This workshop aims at bringing together the most up-to-date scholarship to make sense of such diverging trajectories in the post-communist world. Possible themes to be covered by the workshop include: Is the basic concept of “transition” still relevant? How did initial conditions, institutions and policy choices influence the diverging trajectories of transition experiences? How did the objective perception of the transition experience among both the elites and the mass change over time? What are the relations between political transitions and economic development in transition economies? How didkey international factors (e.g. 9/11, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq/Syria, U.S.-Russia rivalry) determine the fate of transition countries? What lessons can we learn from the transition experiences in way of contributing to both social