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When the people and their political leaders overthrew communist party rule in the countries of Eastern Europe, they were led by a strong desire to eliminate the ideological, political, economic and socio-cultural divisions that separated the West and East in Europe and the world. The following quarter century of post-communist reforms and the eventual integration of eleven post-communist countries into the enlarged European Union (EU) have successfully eliminated many European Cold-War divisions. Yet, the political, socio-economic, and cultural transformations of post-communist states are still ongoing. The differences between the ‘old’ western and ‘new’ eastern members of the EU are still remarkable, and new differences have emerged between the EU and non-EU post-communist states. Recent developments in Ukraine pose probing questions about the past and no less probing questions about the future of the region.