Reform of the Socialist System in Central and Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Difficult Democracies: Central and Eastern Europe in Transition

   • Martin J. Bull, Mike Ingham

   Pages 1-15

3. Civil Society and Ethnic Difference in East-Central Europe and the Baltic Countries

   • Christopher Bryant

   Pages 16-40

4. Transition to the Market: Recent Developments and Current Problems

   • Paul Hare

   Pages 41-59

5. Conceptions and Misconceptions of Political Change in East-Central Europe

   • Georgi Karasimeonov

   Pages 60-76

6. Frustration With Liberalism? ‘Sound’ Interventionism in East European Economics

   • János Mátyás Kovács

   Pages 77-91

7. Privatization Processes in the Transformation from Plan to Market

   • Jan Kowalski

   Pages 92-114

8. Russia in Transition

   • Vera Tolz

   Pages 115-135

9. Women in the Polish Labour Market: Is Transition a Threat?

   • Mike Ingham, Hilary Ingham, Anna Karwinńska, Grzegorz Węctawowicz

   Pages 136-162

10. Back Matter

    Pages 163-174

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This book analyzes the reform of the socialist system in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Uniquely, it adopts a multi-disciplinary perspective which includes authors from both Western Europe and the former Communist world. The volume contains analyses of: the prospects for civil society, economic reform and privatisation, theories of economic transition and the role of the state, political change and the persistence of former Communist parties, the prospects for democracy in the former Soviet Union, and gender aspects of labour market reform.

• communism
• democracy
• socialism
• russian and post-soviet politics

• European Studies Research Institute, and Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UK

  Martin J. Bull

• European Studies Research Institute, University of Salford, UK

  Mike Ingham

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