The Transformation of State Socialism

1. Introduction: Outcomes of Transformation
David Lane

Part I. Social Forces and Transformation

2. Communist Nostalgia and its Consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine
Stephen White

3. The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-reform in Russia and Ukraine
David Lane

4. Social Forces and the Post-communist Transition: Why Labour Turns Right
David Ost

Part II. Outcomes of Transformation: Central and Eastern Europe

5. The European Union’s Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europe
Philip Hanson

6. The Outcomes of the Czech Economic Transformation
Martin Myant

7. The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints
Rudi Schmidt

8. The Russian Transformation: a New Form of Etacratism?
Ovsey Shkaratan

Part III. Consolidation of New Regimes: the Problem of Inequality

9. Effects of Transformation on Inequality in Russia
Nick Manning

10. Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post-communist Europe
Peggy Watson

11. Mass Privatization and the Post-communist Mortality Crisis
Lawrence King, David Stuckler

Part IV. Alternative Scenarios: Reform without System Change?

12. Belarus: Prototype for Market Socialism?
Mario Nuti

13. Transnational Ties and Transformation of Cuban Socialism
Susan Eckstein

14. Change and Continuity in North Korea
Soyoung Kwon

15. The Impact of the Demise of State Socialism on China
Jeanne L. Wilson

16. The Consequences of the Transformation on the Third World
Satoshi Mizobata

Avainsanat: Economics, Economic Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Regional/Spatial Science, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Political Economy, Economic Systems