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. Comparisons are made between the successful central European countries now members of the European Union with those of the former Soviet Union. The impact of the collapse of the USSR and the course of transformation is considered on China, Cuba, and North Korean. The book also contemplates the alternative types of society that might replace state socialism, particularly state capitalism and market socialism.
Author(s): David Lane
Series: Studies in Economic Transition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 327
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Appendices......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Notes on the Contributors......Page 13
1 Introduction: Two Outcomes of Transformation......Page 16
Part I: Social Forces and Transformation......Page 48
2 Communist Nostalgia and its Consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine......Page 50
3 The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-reform in Russia and Ukraine......Page 72
4 Social Forces and the Post-communist Transition: Why Labour Turns Right......Page 92
Part II: Outcomes of Transformation: Central and Eastern Europe......Page 108
5 The European Union’s Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europe......Page 110
6 The Outcomes of the Czech Economic Transformation......Page 128
7 The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints......Page 146
8 The Russian Transformation: a New Form of Etacratism?......Page 158
Part III: Consolidation of New Regimes: the Problem of Inequality......Page 174
9 Effects of Transformation on Inequality in Russia......Page 176
10 Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post-communist Europe......Page 194
11 Mass Privatization and the Post-communist Mortality Crisis......Page 212
Part IV: Alternative Scenarios: Reform without System Change?......Page 234
12 Belarus: Prototype for Market Socialism?......Page 236
13 Transnational Ties and Transformation of Cuban Socialism......Page 248
14 Change and Continuity in North Korea......Page 265
15 The Impact of the Demise of State Socialism on China......Page 284
16 The Consequences of the Transformation on the Third World......Page 301
B......Page 316
C......Page 317
D......Page 318
E......Page 319
G......Page 320
L......Page 321
N......Page 322
P......Page 323
R......Page 324
S......Page 325
U......Page 326
Z......Page 327
