ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE FORMATION OF A NEW POWER SYSTEM IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Analyzes the essence of the civil society phenomenon in modern political science, defines the features of its formation in the conditions of Central and Eastern Europe in the period of democratic transition, among which the most significant are social movements against totalitarianism, communism and violence. The main forms of influence on the formation of a new system of government were to participate in round tables and support of liberal economic reforms aimed at strengthening the middle class as the economic and social foundations of democratic governance. As part of the Eastern European group of countries allocate post-Soviet states, where democratic transformation after the fall of the USSR occurred in the conditions of underdevelopment of the middle class and the formation noncivic society, which is reflected in slowing the democratic reforms and the formation of authoritarian political regimes.