This Ford Foundation-sponsored workshop has been organized by the University of Michigan Center for Russian and East European Studies, Ann Arbor, MI in collaboration with the "Social Monitoring" Centre, Kyiv. The collection of data presented at the workshop was supported by the Ford Foundation (Grant No. 950-1163) and the National Council for Soviet and East European Research (Contract No. 812-11); neither organization is responsible for research findings and analyses.

• Post-Soviet Identity and Environmental Problems in Transition: Estonia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan through Focus Groups
  Michael Kennedy, Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Michigan
  Lisa Fein, Ph.D. Student in Sociology, University of Michigan

• Naturalizing Miseries: Popular tales of The Transition to a more Normal future
  Ted Hopf, Research Associate, Center for Russian and East European Studies,
  University of Michigan

• Voluntary and Elicited Discourses: a comparison of moderator influence across sites
  Marianne Kamp, Ph.D. Candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

• Ukraine: Oral History Interview. Background, Procedures, Expectations, and Preliminary Analysis
  Victor Susak, Research Associate, Institute for Historical Research, Lviv State University, Lviv

• Social Identities in Post-Soviet Ukraine: The Case of L'viv and Donets'k
  Oksana Malanchuk, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan

• Jewish Identity, Needs and Citizenship in Ukraine
  Jeremy Shine, Ph.D. Student in Political Science, University of Michigan

• Work as a Factor in Identity Formation: Focus Groups in Ethnographic Context
  J. Dickinson, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan

• Focus Groups as Social Process: Arguing for a Proactive Moderator Role
  Morgan Liu, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan
  Alisher Ilkhamov, Director, "Expert" Sociological Center, Tashkent

• Education as Break Characteristic
  Jelena Helemäe, Researcher, Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn

• Changing Social Priorities and the Increased Salience of the Economy in Estonia: 1991-96
  Barbara Anderson, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
  John Romani, Professor Emeritus of Public Health, University of Michigan

• Gender-related Problems in Focus Group Discussions
  Rein Vöörmann, Chairman, Research Group of Social Stratification, Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn

• Influence of Gender on Subjective and Estimation Perception of Reality and Identity Formation
  Yuliya Yakubova, Head, Center for Family Studies, Kyiv

• Gender Issues in Uzbekistan
  Lyudmila Hafizova, Project Leader, Tadqiqot Agency of Social and Market Research, Tashkent

• The Expression of Local Identity (Locality and Specialty Structure) within Ukraine and Social Problems Specifics
  Olga Balakireva, Scientific Leader, "Social Monitoring" Centre, Kyiv

• Exchanging Natural States: Freedom, Individualism and Capitalism after the USSR
  Theresa Truax, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan

• Oral History as a Method to Study Socio-Economic Problems of Society
  Alexander Plotkin, Managing Director, "SAIBO" Ltd., Tallinn

• Liquidators, Chornobylets and Masonic Ecologists: Environmental Identities and Issues in Ukraine
  Janice Brummond, M.A. Student in Russian and East European Studies and M.S. Student in Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

• National and Ethnic Dimensions in Focus Group Discussions
  Marika Kirch, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International and Social Studies, Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn

• Expression of National Identity by Focus Group Participants
  Natalie Salabaj, Principal Research Assistant, "Social Monitoring" Centre, Kyiv

• Socio-Dynamics of National Identity: In Search of a System of Measurement
  Alisher Ilkhamov, Director, "Expert" Sociological Center, Tashkent

• "Uzbek Tatars": An Identity in Formation?
  Greta Uehling, Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan