Ilianna Zloch-Christy has been a consultant with the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and other international organizations. She held faculty fellowships at the Department of Economics, the Center for European Studies, and Russian Research Center, all at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and at St. Antony's College at Oxford University, U.K.. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has worked as a research fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zloch-Christy has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe, and is fluent in many languages including Bulgarian, German, English, and Russian.

"This work provides useful background to the problems of Eastern Europe. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice

• Introduction Eastern Europe on a Road toward Radical Change Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Economic Reform and Political Change Economic Development Strategies Currency Convertibility in the Post-Communist Economies Conclusion Index

Ilianna Zloch-Christy has been a consultant with the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and other international organizations. She held faculty fellowships at the Department of Economics, the Center for European Studies, and Russian Research Center, all at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and at St. Antony's College at Oxford University, U.K.. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has worked as a research fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zloch-Christy has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe, and is fluent in many languages including Bulgarian, German, English, and Russian.

"This work provides useful background to the problems of Eastern Europe. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice

• Introduction Eastern Europe on a Road toward Radical Change Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Economic Reform and Political Change Economic Development Strategies Currency Convertibility in the Post-Communist Economies Conclusion Index

Ilianna Zloch-Christy has been a consultant with the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, and other international organizations. She held faculty fellowships at the Department of Economics, the Center for European Studies, and Russian Research Center, all at Harvard University, the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University, and at St. Antony's College at Oxford University, U.K.. She holds a PhD in economics from the University of Vienna, Austria, and has worked as a research fellow at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Zloch-Christy has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe, and is fluent in many languages including Bulgarian, German, English, and Russian.

"This work provides useful background to the problems of Eastern Europe. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty." - Choice

• Introduction Eastern Europe on a Road toward Radical Change Economic Transformation in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Economic Reform and Political Change Economic Development Strategies Currency Convertibility in the Post-Communist Economies Conclusion Index