Postcommunism : four perspectives / edited by Michael Mandelbaum.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mandelbaum, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Council on Foreign Relations, [1996]

Summary:

This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the 1990s: post-communist Eurasia.

Contents:

1. Cultural Legacies or State Collapse? Probing the Postcommunist Dilemma / Stephen Holmes 22

2. The State and Economy: Reflections on the Transition from Communism to Capitalism in Russia / Robert Skidelsky 77

3. Democracy, Capitalism, and the End of Transition / John Mueller 102

4. If Not Democracy, What? Leaders, Laggards, and Losers in the Postcommunist World / Charles Gati 168.

Notes:

"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0876091869

OCLC:

34150399