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The transformation of state socialism : system change, capitalism or something else? / edited by David Lane.

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Lippincott Library HC244 .T698614 2007
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Lane, David, 1933-
Series:
Studies in economic transition
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.
Europe, Eastern.
Eastern Europe.
Economic conditions.
Former Soviet republics--Economic conditions.
Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism.
Post-communism--Former Soviet republics.
Physical Description:
xiv, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Summary:
This book examines the impact of transformation on former state socialist countries, and explores successes, failures and alternative regimes.
Contents:
Introduction : two outcomes of transformation / David Lane
Communist nostalgia and its consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine / Stephen White
The social bases of reform and anti-reform in Russia and Ukraine / David Lane
Social forces in the post-communist transition : why labour turns right / David Ost
The European Union's influence on the development of capitalism in Central Europe / Philip Hanson
The outcomes of the Czech economic transformation / Martin Myant
The integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic : challenges and constraints / Rudi Schmidt
The Russian transformation : a new form of etacratism? / Ovsey Shkaratan
Effects of transformation on inequality in Russia / Nick Manning
Inequalities in health and health care in post-communist Europe / Peggy Watson
Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis / Lawrence King and David Stuckler
Belarus : prototype for market socialism? / Mario Nuti
Transnational ties and transformation of Cuban socialism / Susan Eckstein
Change and continuity in North Korea / Soyoung Kwon
The impact of the demise of state socialism on China / Jeanne L. Wilson
The consequences of the transformation on the Third World / Satoshi Mizobata.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
023052088X
9780230520882
OCLC:
124031906

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