Reform and Transformation in Eastern Europe: Soviet-type Economics on the Threshold of Change. (book reviews)

Both of these books address, directly or indirectly, the central event of our times - the transition from communist rule in the former Soviet Union and East Central Europe. There has been no shortage in the discussion so far of rival versions of "who got it right." There has been some consideration of the future of Sovietology and communist studies and whether they have a future at all.

There has been much less interest, so far, in the process of transition itself - in the relative weight of political and economic factors, the influence of broad societal forces as against ...

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