This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios. It also looks at alternative types of society that might replace state socialism, particularly state capitalism and market socialism.
This book considers aspects of transformation of former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes;and other scenarios. It also looks at alternative types of society that might replace state socialism, particularly state capitalism and market socialism.
SUSAN ECKSTEIN Professor of Sociology, Boston University, USA PHILIP HANSON Emeritus Professor of the Political Economy of Russia and Eastern Europe, University of Birmingham, UK; Associate Fellow, Chatham House, UK LAWRENCE P. KING Reader, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK; Fellow, Emmanuel College, UK SOYOUNG KWON North Korea Expert and Policy Advisor, European Parliament NICK MANNING Professor of Social Policy and Sociology, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK SATOSHI MIZOBATA Professor and Vice-Director, University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Japan MARTIN MYANT Professor, Paisley Business School, University of Paisley, UK MARIO NUTI Professor of Comparative Economic Systems, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy DAVID OST Professor of Political Science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, USA; Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary RUDI SCHMIDT Former Chair, Sociology of Work Committee, German Sociological Association, Germany OVSEY SHKARATAN Professor, State University - Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia DAVID STUCKLER Doctoral Student, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, UK PEGGY WATSON Senior Researcher, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK STEPHEN WHITE Professor, International Politics, and Senior Associate, School of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK JEANNE L. WILSON Professor of Political Science, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, USA; Research Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Research, Harvard University, USA
Inhaltsangabe
Outcomes of Transformation; D.Lane PART I: SOCIAL FORCES AND TRANSFORMATION Communist Nostalgia and its Consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; S.White The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform in Russia and Ukraine; D.Lane Why Labour Turns to the Right: Social Forces in the Post-Communist Transition; D.Ost PART II: OUTCOMES OF TRANSFORMATION: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The European Union's Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europe; P.Hanson The Outcomes of the Czech Economic Transformation; M.Myant The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints; R.Schmidt The Russian Transformation: A New Form of Etacratism; O.Shkaratan PART III: CONSOLIDATION OF NEW REGIMES: THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY Effects of Transformation on Inequality in Russia; N.Manning Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post Communist Europe; P.Watson Rapid Large Scale Privatization and the Post Communist Mortality Crisis; L.King & D.Stuckler PART IV: ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS: REFORM WITHOUT SYSTEM CHANGE? Belarus: A Market Socialism Prototype?; M.Nuti Transnational Ties and Transformation of Cuban Socialism; S.Eckstein Change and Continuity in North Korea; S.Kwon The Impact of the Demise of State Socialism on China; J.Wilson The Consequences of Transformation on the Third World; S.Mizobata
Outcomes of Transformation; D.Lane PART I: SOCIAL FORCES AND TRANSFORMATION Communist Nostalgia and its Consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; S.White The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform in Russia and Ukraine; D.Lane Why Labour Turns to the Right: Social Forces in the Post-Communist Transition; D.Ost PART II: OUTCOMES OF TRANSFORMATION: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The European Union's Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europe; P.Hanson The Outcomes of the Czech Economic Transformation; M.Myant The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints; R.Schmidt The Russian Transformation: A New Form of Etacratism; O.Shkaratan PART III: CONSOLIDATION OF NEW REGIMES: THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY Effects of Transformation on Inequality in Russia; N.Manning Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post Communist Europe; P.Watson Rapid Large Scale Privatization and the Post Communist Mortality Crisis; L.King & D.Stuckler PART IV: ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS: REFORM WITHOUT SYSTEM CHANGE? Belarus: A Market Socialism Prototype?; M.Nuti Transnational Ties and Transformation of Cuban Socialism; S.Eckstein Change and Continuity in North Korea; S.Kwon The Impact of the Demise of State Socialism on China; J.Wilson The Consequences of Transformation on the Third World; S.Mizobata
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'...a very useful addition to reading lists for its breadth of coverage and illustration of the contingency of transformational processes and outcomes globally.' - Political Studies Review
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