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The transformation of state socialism : system change, capitalism or something else? / edited by David Lane.
Lippincott Library HC244 .T698614 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- 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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- Publisher description
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