The transformation of state socialism
Subtitle: system change, capitalism or something else?
By: edited by David Lane.
Contributors: Lane, David Stuart.
Series: Studies in economic transition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.; Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics.; Europe, Eastern -- Economic conditions -- 1989-; Former Soviet republics -- Economic conditions.
Notes: Papers based on a conference which convened at teh University of Cambridge with the support of the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Outcomes of transformation / David Lane; title: Communist nostalgia and its consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine / Stephen White; title: The social bases of reform and anti-reform in Russia and Ukraine / David Lane; title: Why labour turns to the right : social forces in the post communist transition / David Ost; title: The European Union's influence on the development of capitalism in Central Europe / Philip Hanson; title: The outcomes of the Czech economic transformation / Martin Myant; title: The integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic : challenges and constraints / Rudi Schmidt; title: The Russian transformation : a new form of etacratism? / Ovsey Shkaratan; title: Effects of transformation on inequality in Russia / Nick Manning; title: Inequalities in health and health care in post communist Europe / Peggy Watson; title: Rapid large scale privatization and the post communist mortality crisis / Lawrence King and David Stuckler; title: Belarus : a market socialism prototype? / Mario Nuti; title: Transnational ties and transformation of Cuban socialism / Susan Eckstein; title: Change and continuity in North Korea / Soyoung Kwon; title: The impact of the demise of state socialism on China / Jeanne Wilson; title: The consequences of transformation on the third world / Satoshi Mizobata.