Transition Economies : Transformation, Development, and Society in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (Paperback)

Chapter 1 The great unknowns ? post-socialist economies and societies in motion, Chapter 2 Transition vs. transformation: what is clear and not so clear about transition economics, Chapter 3 The economic and social context at the turn of the twentieth century: from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union, Chapter 4 The war economy and the post World War II reconstruction in the USSR, Chapter 5 From war to wall to common market: the dialectics of the Eastern European socialist economy, Chapter 6 The socialist economic model, market socialism, stagnation, perestroika, and the end of plan, Chapter 7 The free market reform: liberalization, privatization, shock therapy, and policy misfortunes, Chapter 8 Poverty, income inequality, labor migration, and diaspora potential, Chapter 9 Contours of the new era post-transition economy: they are all different, Chapter 10 Facing the present by knowing the past