Review of the books: I. Post-socialist World: results of transformation. Central-Eastern Europe. Vol. I. Ed. N. V. Kulikova (Institute of Economics RAS) St.Petersburg, “Aletheia”, 2017. 428 p. (In Russ.); II. The Eastern turning-point of external economic policy of Central-Eastern European countries under conditions of growing symptoms of crisis in the EU. Ed. I. I. Orlik. Moscow, IE RAS, 2017. 293 p. (In Russ.)