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This paper discusses changes and developments in the social and economic conditions of the Eastern European, Baltic and CIS countries. The author states that the regional process of change and transition from centrally directed to liberalized market economies has been neither orderly nor as rapid as previously envisioned. The paper places an emphasis on taking stock of social conditions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet countries and provides an analysis of what future measures need to be implemented in order to bring about social improvements for beneficial national development.