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  • Decollectivisation, Destruction and Disillusionment

    A Community Study in Southern Estonia

    by Ilkka Alanen, Jouko Nikula, Rein Ruutsoo ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. A depiction of the decollectivization process of agriculture and the rebirth of capitalistic relations in Southern Estonia - with all their consequences at various levels of social structure and social relations. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Mapping the Rural Problem in the Baltic Countryside

    Transition Processes in the Rural Areas of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    Edited by Ilkka Alanen ...
    The agricultural privatization strategy adopted in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania was based on the premise that family farms are the most effective alternative to socialist large-scale agriculture. In addition, international organizations, particularly the World Bank, made recommendations concerning reform speed, synchronization and ownership rights that would facilitate transferring resources from ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

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  • Hot Coal, Cold Steel

    Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations

    by Stephen Crowley ...
    Well after the disintegration of the Communist Party and the Soviet state--and through several years of economic collapse--industrial workers in almost every sector of the former Soviet Union have remained quiescent and the same ineffective and unpopular trade unions still hold a virtual monopoly on worker's representation. Why? While many argue that labor is a central variable in the development ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • The Soviet Union under Gorbachev (Routledge Revivals)

    Prospects for Reform

    by David A. Dyker ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Gorbachev’s accession to General Secretary promised great changes to the Soviet Union and its relationship with the rest of the world. This book, first published in 1987, discusses the problems faced by Gorbachev when he entered office and how he planned to tackle them. Gorbachev was a figure of genuine debate in the mid-1980s, raising doubts from Western specialists regarding his radicalism and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Political Economy of Russia

    Edited by Neil Robinson ...
    This timely book explores Russia’s political development since the collapse of the USSR and how inextricably it has been bound up with economic change. Tracing the evolution of Russia’s political economy, leading scholars consider how it may continue to develop going forward. They assess the historical legacies of the Soviet period, showing how—despite policies implemented after the USSR dissolved ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Agrarian Reform in Russia

    The Road from Serfdom

    by Carol S. Leonard ...
    This book examines the history of reforms and major state interventions affecting Russian agriculture: the abolition of serfdom in 1861, the Stolypin reforms, the NEP, the Collectivization, Khrushchev reforms, and finally farm enterprise privatization in the early 1990s. It shows a pattern emerging from a political imperative in imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet regimes, and it describes how these ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • From Solidarity to Sellout

    by Tadeusz Kowalik ...
    Translated by Eliza Lewandowska ...
    In the 1980s and 90s, renowned Polish economist Tadeusz Kowalik played a leading role in the Solidarity movement, struggling alongside workers for an alternative to "really-existing socialism" that was cooperative and controlled by the workers themselves. In the ensuing two decades, "really-existing" socialism has collapsed, capitalism has been restored, and Poland is now among the most unequal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union

    The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973

    by Ivan T. Berend ...
    The Soviet Union's dramatic collapse in 1989 was a pivotal moment in the complex history of Central and Eastern Europe, and Ivan Berend here offers a magisterial new account of the dramatic transformation that culminated in ten former Soviet Bloc countries joining the European Union. Taking the OPEC oil crisis of 1973 as his starting point, he charts the gradual unravelling of state socialism in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Russia

    A State of Uncertainty

    by Neil Robinson ...
    Series series Postcommunist States and Nations
    Over the last hundred years, Russia has undergone a succession of failed projects of state construction - from Tzarist modernisation to Soviet state socialism to liberal democratic market capitalism. This new book introduces these vastly different projects and explains their failure in order to illuminate the common problems of balancing social and economic transformation with political stability ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Czech And Slovak Republics

    Nation Versus State

    by Carol Leff ...
    This clear, objective introduction to the politics of Czechoslovakia and the successor Czech and Slovak Republics provides a comprehensive analysis of Czechoslovakia in the postcommunist period. Carol Leff builds a framework for understanding the dynamics of the "triple transition": democratization, marketization, and a national transformation that has reconfigured the dynamic between state and ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Comparative Economic Systems: v. 2

    Market and State in Economic Systems

    by Richard L. Carson ...
    Comparative Economic Systems is published in three editions, one for each major part. This is Part II and covers Socialist Alternatives, looking at the Hungarian Economy, the structure and trends of the Chinese economy, the Yugoslav workers self-management, planning, agriculture and foreign trade ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • The Commanding Heights

    The Battle for the World Economy

    by Daniel Yergin, Joseph Stanislaw ...
    The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain the revolution in ... Read more

    $16.99 USD