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EEC is the only periodical dealing with countryside change in Central and Eastern Europe (countries which underwent a fundamental system transformation after 1989, abandoning socialism for a democratic system based on the free market economy). It presents the process of change in the legislative, organizational, economic, social areas, predicted consequences of these changes. Most of texts are about socio-economic, political, cultural phenomena in the lives rural communities undergoing change.

EEC provides international circulation for research results and academic works generally published only in national Eastern and Central European countries languages and thus restricted within the borders of a particular country market.

The readership of the periodical – whose yearly circulation is between 100/200 copies is relatively wide. These are individuals and institutions in whole World (we have readers from Asia, Northern America and others) interested both in the progress of change process in the legislative, organizational, economic and social areas in Eastern and Central European Countries as well as the known and predicted consequences of these changes.

Developed by Institute of Sociology at Nicolaus Copernicus University as an international platform for the sociological discourse on Eastern and Central European countryside developments, EEC publishes research on CEE countryside rather than research by CEE researchers. The journal covers social theory and analysis on two levels: comparative research on European countryside, and CEE countryside in international perspective. Concentrating on the present, EEC articles examine themes reflecting recent and significant changes in CEE countryside from a cross-disciplinary view point. The journal is essential reading for all sociologists, economists, political scientists and social policy analysts wishing to keep abreast of the very latest debates in this part of Europe.

The aim of the EEC is to provide a medium for the publication of original papers covering the entire span of sociological thought and research concerning Central and Eastern European countryside. The Editors are particularly keen to publish work on current developments in research and analysis.

• Editor-in-Chief, Andrzej Kaleta, Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
• Deputy/ Managing Editor, Monika Kwiecińska-Zdrenka, Institute of Sociology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
• Editors

Social Sciences Citation Index, Sociological Abstracts, The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (CEJSH), Scopus

IF: Pending

Eastern European Countryside

Instytut Socjologii Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu

Fosa Staromiejska st. 1a, 87-100 Toruń

tel. 56 611 36 18,

fax. 56 622 47 65

mail: eec@umk.pl lub il@umk.pl