Iván Szelényi is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Political Science at Yale University and at New York University (Abu Dhabi). He has a long standing interest in class formation under state socialism, and researched the origins of the new entrepreneurial class. Peter Mihályi is Professor at the Department of Macroeconomics, Corvinus University of Budapest, and Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Hungary. In the 1990s, he served – inter alia – as Deputy Government Commissioner for Privatization and Deputy Minister of Finance.

• PrefaceList of Figures, Tables and Boxes1 Introduction2 Legitimacy under Communism and Post-communism: Theoretical Background2.1 When Is a Rule ‘Illegitimate’?2.2 The Three Ideal Types of Legitimate Authority (and the Fourth)2.3 Various Types of Traditional Authority3 Varieties of Communism3.1 Introductory Remarks3.2 What Is/Was Communism? The Political Economy of the Classical System3.3 Systems of Domination under Various Types of Communism3.4 Reforming the Communist Economy3.5 The Governance of State-Owned Enterprises3.6 Stratification Regimes under Various Communist Formations4 Reinterpretation of Inequalities and Rent-Seeking in Advanced Market Economie4.1 Profits versus Rents4.2 Changing and New Forms of Rents4.3 Institutional Consequences of Rent4.4 Class Reproduction through the Accumulation of Human and Cultural Capital4.5 The Counter-Revolution of Nation States in the Name of More Equality 5 The Divergent Pathways Out of Communism5.1 Introductory Comments: Distinguishing Three Pathways to Capitalisms5.2 The Liberal Model5.3 The Patrimonial Model5.4 Market Socialism or Capitalism from Below?5.5 The Structure of Post-communist Societies during the First Phases of Transformation6 Consolidation and Partial Re-convergence of Post-communist Pathways? 6.1 Eastern European Liberal Democracies: Successes and Crises, 2000–20106.2 The New Legitimacy and a New Political Economy: Illiberal Managed Democracy and Prebendalism6.3 The Ideology of Post-communist Traditionalism6.4 Liberal-Democratic Ways to Capitalism in Eastern Europe: The Emergence of Prebendalism?6.5 Is China on the Road to Putinism?6.6 Social Structure in Post-communist Societies in or on the Way to Prebendalism7 Conclusions: Is Putinism a Model for Post-communism?BibliographyName IndexSubject Index