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In this timely interdisciplinary volume, a renowned group of
scholars provides a fresh look at transformation in Eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union, They argue that this lengthy and
largely uncontrollable process will follow a different path from
that blazed by Western democracies. The contributors perceive this
process as a painful one, marked by trials and reversals. The most
striking and current example of this uneven process considered is
the attempted August coup and the subsequent fragmentation of the
Soviet Union. Attributing the collapse of state socialism to
ideological erosion combined with economic deterioration, the
contributors contend that all major segments in these
societies—including the party itself—participated in bringing
the system down.
This is an appraisal of the transformation that has taken place in
the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The book addresses two central
issues: how has the state socialist system of party monopoly and
central planning dissolved? And how are these societies recreating
a communist antithesis - civil society and free markets? The
contributors attribute the collapse of state socialism to
ideological erosion, combined with economic deterioration resulting
from improperly defined property rights.
This book is a methodologically self-conscious and intellectually
ambitious effort to advance the social science debate on
postcommunist transformation beyond the limitations of its first
decade. Offering theoretically innovative and empirically current
analyses of fundamental economic, cultural, and political problems
of systemic change and reform in central and Eastern Europe, the
authors broaden and deepen the research agenda by developing a set
of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary,
sociologically informed, historically comparative, and global. The
bookOs major substantive themes revolve around problems of
postcommunist socioeconomic transformations. Specifically, the book
explores postcommunist systemic change, the role of religion and
collective identity, the significance of trust and economic
culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise
restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and
weaknesses of economic theory and neoliberal doctrine, and the
history of ideas in the postcommunist transformation debate.
Bringing together leading experts in the field to illustrate the
fruitfulness of multidisciplinary analysis in understanding
socioeconomic transitions, this work will be valuable for
economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.
This book is a methodologically self-conscious and intellectually
ambitious effort to advance the social science debate on
postcommunist transformation beyond the limitations of its first
decade. Offering theoretically innovative and empirically current
analyses of fundamental economic, cultural, and political problems
of systemic change and reform in central and Eastern Europe, the
authors broaden and deepen the research agenda by developing a set
of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary,
sociologically informed, historically comparative, and global. The
book s major substantive themes revolve around problems of
postcommunist socioeconomic transformations. Specifically, the book
explores postcommunist systemic change, the role of religion and
collective identity, the significance of trust and economic
culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise
restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and
weaknesses of economic theory and neoliberal doctrine, and the
history of ideas in the postcommunist transformation debate.
Bringing together leading experts in the field to illustrate the
fruitfulness of multidisciplinary analysis in understanding
socioeconomic transitions, this work will be valuable for
economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike."
In this book, first published in 1997, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski
offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish
economy since 1971. He examines the economic peak of the communist
phase, the decline of the system, and the post-communist transition
since 1989. Taking his analytical framework from evolutionary
economics, he provides a complete re-evaluation of conventional
views of communist economies and the post-communist transition. The
book presents the communist economy as subject to major changes,
particularly due to political pressures, and interprets its
economic difficulties as related to underlying political decay. The
economic 'shock therapy' of 1990 is seen as very much a
continuation of earlier trends and pressures, which has led to
probably an even deeper, though brief, economic collapse. This book
will be of interest to economists and political scientists
concerned with institutional transitions, as well as to students of
East European and post-Soviet studies.
In this book, first published in 1997, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski
offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish
economy since 1971. He examines the economic peak of the communist
phase, the decline of the system, and the post-communist transition
since 1989. Taking his analytical framework from evolutionary
economics, he provides a complete re-evaluation of conventional
views of communist economies and the post-communist transition. The
book presents the communist economy as subject to major changes,
particularly due to political pressures, and interprets its
economic difficulties as related to underlying political decay. The
economic 'shock therapy' of 1990 is seen as very much a
continuation of earlier trends and pressures, which has led to
probably an even deeper, though brief, economic collapse. This book
will be of interest to economists and political scientists
concerned with institutional transitions, as well as to students of
East European and post-Soviet studies.
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