The Transformation Of Communist Systems : Economic Reform Since The 1950s (Paperback)

Introduction -- The Traditional System -- The Institutional Base -- Central Planning -- Other Parts of the System -- The Socialist Economy in Stalinist Doctrine -- Systemic Adjustments -- Poland: Pioneer and Then Laggard (1956-1979) -- Big Brother Modernizes: The Soviet Union (1957?1985) -- An Original Way: East Germany (1963-1989) -- Radical Reform -- Self-Management and the Retreat from Planning in Yugoslavia (1950?1964) -- Plan and Market in Czechoslovakia (1966?1969) -- Hungary's New Economic Mechanism (1968-1979) -- Modernization in China Under Deng Xiaoping (1979?1989) -- Toward the Dismantling of the System -- The Evolution of Reformist Ideas During the 1980s -- The New Yugoslav Experiments (1965?1991) -- Poland: From Solidarity to the "Big Bang" (1980?1991) -- The Hungarian Laboratory of Radicalization (1980?1991) -- From the GDR to the Five New States (1990?1991) -- Conclusion -- Epilogue