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The Second Economy in Marxist States

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Maria Łoś

    1. Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Maria Łoś
    Pages 1-10

  3. The Second Economy in the Soviet Union

    • Louise I. Shelley
    Pages 11-26

  4. The Dynamics of the Second Economy in Poland

    • Maria Łoś
    Pages 27-49

  5. The Second Economy in Hungary

    • Istvan Kemeny
    Pages 50-68

  6. The Second Economy in Romania

    • Horst Brezinski, Paul Petersen
    Pages 69-84

  7. Unofficial Economic Activities in Yugoslavia

    • Ivo Bićanić
    Pages 85-100

  8. The Cuban Second Economy in Perspective

    • Raymond J. Michalowski, Marjorie S. Zatz
    Pages 101-121

  9. The Second Economy in Nicaragua is the Second Front: Washington’s Efforts to Destabilise any Succeeding American Revolution

    • W. Gordon West
    Pages 122-139

  10. The Second Economy in Socialist China

    • Xin Ren
    Pages 140-156

  11. The Second Economy in Angola: Esquema and Candonga

    • Daniel dos Santos
    Pages 157-174

  12. The Second Economy in Tanzania: its Emergence and Strategies of Control

    • Andrew S. Z. Kiondo
    Pages 175-192

  13. Dynamic Relationships of the First and Second Economies in Old And New Marxist States

    • Maria Łoś
    Pages 193-230

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 231-240
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This book analyses and compares the unofficial economies and their control in ten marxist states: the USSR, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Cuba, Nicaragua, China, Angola and Tanzania. It provides a vivid, mosaic-like panorama of the hidden economies in these countries. The book breaks with the view that the unofficial economy is simply a by-product of the official economy. It shows an unfolding interplay between these two economies, which moulds and limits both the dynamics and the direction of the process of change. In her final essay, Maria Los develops a theoretical model linking second economies with the process of marxist economic development. The key stages of this process are identified as: (1) The stage of radical transformation; (2) The monopolisation period; (3) The reformist phase; and (4) Post- reformist decadence. The volume throws a new light on the prospects and problems of the reformist movements which have swept the Soviet Union, China and several other marxist states in the 1980s.

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  • Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada

    Maria Łoś

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