Kerstin Jacobsson is Professor of Sociology at Södertörn University, Sweden. Steven Saxonberg is Professor of Sociology at Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Development of Social Movements in Central and Eastern Europe, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 2 Channeling and Enrollment: The Institutional Shaping of Animal Rights Activism in Poland, Kerstin Jacobsson; Chapter 3 At the Intersection of Gender and Class: Social Mobilization Around Mothers' Rights in Poland, Renata E. Hryciuk, El?bieta Korolczuk; Chapter 4 1Special thanks are due to the activists of the Hungarian home-birth movement who provided information for this chapter. I am very grateful to Gabriella Nagy and Júlia Spronz for offering updates., Katalin Fábián; Chapter 5 1This work has been prepared as part of a research project funded by the Foundation for Baltic and East European Studies (grant 1751/42/2008) as well as a research project (code GAP404/10/1586) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Steven Saxonberg; Chapter 6 From NGOs to Naught: The Rise and Fall of the Czech Gay Rights Movement, Conor O'Dwyer; Chapter 7 1 This work has been prepared as part of the research project Collective Action and Protest in East-Central Europe (code GAP404/11/0462) funded by the Czech Science Foundation., Ond?ej Císa?; Chapter 8 The Social Movement Against Immigration as the Vehicle and the Agent of Racialization in Russia, Nikolay Zakharov; Chapter 9 "Taganka 3" Group: An Instance of Local Urban Activism in Moscow, Aleh Ivanou; Chapter 10 1The research for this chapter was undertaken as part of the EU Compliance in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia (ECoBHAS) project funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (Grant no. 127796)., Adam Fagan, Indraneel Sircar; Chapter 11 Mobilizing against Post-Communist Autocracy: The Challenge of Competitive Authoritarianism, Philipp Kuntz; conclusion Conclusion, Kerstin Jacobsson, Steven Saxonberg;