First the transition, then the crash : Eastern Europe in the 2000s / edited by Gareth Dale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dale, Gareth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Economic conditions.

Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--1989-.

Politics and government.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

vi, 271 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, 2011.

Summary:

The political upheavals in Eastern Europe of 1989-91 sparked a turbulent process of social and economic transition. Two decades on, with the global economic crisis of 2008-10, a new phase has begun.

This book explores the scale and trajectory of the crisis through case studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The contributors focus upon the relationships between geopolitics, the world economy and class restructuring.

The book covers the changing relationship between business and states; foreign capital flows; financialisation and asset price bubbles; austerity and privatisation; and societal responses, in the form of reactionary populism and progressive social movements.

Challenging neoliberal interpretations that envisage the transition as a process of unfolding liberty, the dialectic charted in these pages reveals uneven development, attenuated freedoms and social polarisation. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction : the transition in Central and Eastern Europe / Gareth Dale

Marx on 1989 / G.M. Tamás

Workers in modern Russia / Mike Haynes

Russia's foreign policy from Putin to Medvedev / Gonzalo Pozo

Autocratic neoliberalism and beyond : Russia's caesarist journey into the global political economy / Owen North

Twenty years lost : Latvia's failed development in the post-Soviet world / Jeff Sommers and Jānis Bērzin̦š

The Ukrainian economy and the international financial crisis / Marko Bojcun

Poland and the global political economy : from neoliberalism to populism (and back again) / Stuart Shields

The Czech Republic : neoliberal reform and economic crisis / Ilona Švihlíková

From poster boy of neoliberal transformation to basket case : Hungary and the global economic crisis / Adam Fabry

Serbia from the October 2000 revolution to the crash / Martin Upchurch and Darko Marinković

Conclusion : the 'crash' in Central and Eastern Europe / Gareth Dale and Jane Hardy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

0745331157

9780745331164

0745331165

OCLC:

701811060

Publisher Number:

99949493283