First the Transition, then the Crash

Gareth Dale is Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Brunel University, England. He is the author of First the Transition, then the Crash (Pluto, 2011), Reconstructing Karl Polanyi (Pluto, 2016) and Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (Polity, 2010).

'Central and Eastern Europe is a neoliberal horror story. The details are well told here: of 'grabitisation' kleptocracies, NATO expansion and capital flight. These well-packaged studies show how US sponsored 'reforms' deindustrialised Russia and other post-Soviet states'

• 1. Introduction: The Transition in Central and Eastern Europe by Gareth Dale2. Marx on 1989 by G. M. TamásPart One Russia: class and power in the age of Putin3. Workers in Modern Russia by Mike Haynes4. Russia’s Foreign Policy from Putin to Medvedev by Gonzalo Pozo5. Autocratic Neoliberalism and Beyond: Russia’s Caesarist Journey into the Global Political Economy by Owen WorthPart Two From the Baltic to the Balkans: market reform and economic crisis6. Twenty Years Lost: Latvia’s Failed Development in the Post-Soviet World by Jeff Sommers and Ja–nis Berzinš7. The Ukrainian Economy and the International Financial Crisis by Marko Bojcun8. Poland and the Global Political Economy: From Neoliberalism to Populism (and Back Again) by Stuart Shields9. The Czech Republic: Neoliberal Reform and Economic Crisis by Ilona Švihlíková10. From Poster Boy of Neoliberal Transformation to Basket Case: Hungary and the Global Economic Crisis by Adam Fabry11. Serbia from the October 2000 Revolution to the Crash by Martin Upchurch and Darko Marinkovic12. Conclusion: The ‘Crash’ in Central and Eastern Europe by Gareth Dale and Jane HardyNotes on ContributorsIndex