Transformation of State Socialism

DAVID LANE is a Senior Research Associate at Cambridge University, UK, and he has held posts at Birmingham University, UK, where he was Professor of Sociology. He has been a visiting Professor at Harvard and Cornell Universities, USA. He has written many books on Soviet society, state socialism and transformation.

'...a very useful addition to reading lists for its breadth of coverage and illustration of the contingency of transformational processes and outcomes globally.' - Political Studies Review

• Outcomes of Transformation; D.Lane PART I: SOCIAL FORCES AND TRANSFORMATION Communist Nostalgia and its Consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine; S.White The Social Bases of Reform and Anti-Reform in Russia and Ukraine; D.Lane Why Labour Turns to the Right: Social Forces in the Post-Communist Transition; D.Ost PART II: OUTCOMES OF TRANSFORMATION: CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The European Union's Influence on the Development of Capitalism in Central Europe; P.Hanson The Outcomes of the Czech Economic Transformation; M.Myant The Integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic: Challenges and Constraints; R.Schmidt The Russian Transformation: A New Form of Etacratism; O.Shkaratan PART III: CONSOLIDATION OF NEW REGIMES: THE PROBLEM OF INEQUALITY Effects of Transformation on Inequality in Russia; N.Manning Inequalities in Health and Health Care in Post Communist Europe; P.Watson Rapid Large Scale Privatization and the Post Communist Mortality Crisis; L.King & D.Stuckler PART IV: ALTERNATIVE SCENARIOS: REFORM WITHOUT SYSTEM CHANGE? Belarus: A Market Socialism Prototype?; M.Nuti Transnational Ties and Transformation of Cuban Socialism; S.Eckstein Change and Continuity in North Korea; S.Kwon The Impact of the Demise of State Socialism on China; J.Wilson The Consequences of Transformation on the Third World; S.Mizobata