| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
1007592
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b761962
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
The transformation of state socialism : : system change, capitalism or something else? /\ edited by David Lane.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Houndmills, Basingstoke ;New York :: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2007.
|
| Series Statement
|
:
|
Studies in economic transition
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
xiv, 312 pages :: illustrations ;; 23 cm.
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
023052088X
|
|
|
:
|
: 0230591027
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780230520882
|
|
|
:
|
: 9780230591028
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references and index.
|
| 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.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
The collection considers several aspects of the transformation of the former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes; and alternative scenarios.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Post-communism-- Europe, Eastern.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Post-communism-- Former Soviet republics.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Economic history.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Post-communism.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Europe, Eastern, Economic conditions, 1989-
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Former Soviet republics, Economic conditions.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Eastern Europe.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Soviet Union, Former Soviet republics.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
330.947
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
HC244.T698614 2007
|
| Added Entry
|
:
|
Lane, David,1933-
|