The Transformation Of Communist Systems
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Author | : Bernard Chavance |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2019-06-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1000306429 |
In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve the old centralized system by expanding enterprise autonomy (in Poland, the Soviet Union, and East Germany) and more radical reforms that limited the role of central planning (in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and China) encountered social and political obstacles or had unexpected and undesired effects. During the 1980s, the idea of a socialist market economy, which had been seen as a "third way" between capitalism and centralized socialism, was abandoned as economists gradually came to support a free market rather than the dogma of planning. Through a comparative and historical analysis of change in socialist and post-socialist systems, this timely and original book clarifies the policies and pitfalls in this extraordinary transition. Bernard Chavance provides a succinct introduction and analysis of the politics and economics of Eastern Europe from the creation of the Stalinist system in the Soviet Union through what he argues have been three major waves of reform since the 1950s to the dismantling of most socialist governments in the 1990s. Exploring the link between the one-party regime and the growing rigidity of socialist economic systems, the author analyzes the failure of both incremental and radical reforms to adapt to new economic challenges, thus leading to the ultimate collapse of communist regimes in Europe.
Author | : Sabrina Petra Ramet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429710550 |
This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.
Author | : Ilpyong J. Kim |
Publisher | : Washington Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Milovan Djilas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David A Dyker |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004-07-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1783260793 |
In this collection of essays David A Dyker explores some of the most difficult and fascinating aspects of the process of transition from autocratic “real socialism” to a capitalism that is sometimes democratic, sometimes authoritarian. The stress is on the economic dimension of transformation, but the author sets the economic drama firmly within a political economy framework and a historical perspective. Trends in key economic variables are analysed against the background of the struggle between different social and political groups for power and command over resources. While the book pays due attention to topical issues like EU enlargement, the underlying perspective is a long-term one. Transition is viewed not as a set of once-and-for-all institutional changes or a process of short-term stabilisation, but as a historic opportunity to solve the inherited problem of poverty and underdevelopment in Central-East Europe and the former Soviet Union. The book ends with a critical assessment of how economics, as a discipline, has coped with the challenge of that historic opportunity.
Author | : S. Birch |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2003-11-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1403938768 |
Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe assesses the influence of electoral systems on political change in 20 post-communist European states. The main finding is that electoral institutions have systematic effects on the formation of representative structures. 'Party-enabling' aspects of electoral laws such as list proportional representation tend to foster popular inclusion in politics and institutionalized party systems, whereas 'politician-enabling' rules such as single-member districts and ballots that allow voters to select individuals often favour the development of weakly structured systems and high levels of popular exclusion from the representative process.
Author | : Melvin Gurtov |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2019-07-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000306445 |
This book is based on Conference on the Transformation of Socialism in the Soviet Union and China, and reveals a second feature of the conference: the candor of the presentations. It discusses the effects of the reforms on political processes and the development of socialism.
Author | : Sabrina Petra Ramet |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2019-06-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367004491 |
This book explores specific facets of systemic change in a theoretical way for understanding the processes of transformation in the communist systems. It is useful for historians and others concerned with the collapse of the communist system.
Author | : Amos Yoder |
Publisher | : Crane Russak, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Sets forth a framework of facts and analyses to better understand the changing aspects of communism today. It asks: What are the basic elements of the communist ideology that have allowed it to influence the thinking of half the world?, as well as other critical questions.
Author | : Adam Zwass |
Publisher | : M.E. Sharpe |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780765603708 |
Zwass, author of several books based on his experience in the central banking systems of the USSR and Poland, now balances the decidedly pessimistic views of his From Failed Communism to Underdeveloped Capitalism (M.E. Sharpe, 1992) with a more even-handed assessment of the reform experiments and economic prospects of Russia and its Slavic neighbors. He also evaluates social democracy in Western Europe, Germany's leading role in opening the Eastern markets, the likelihood of European Union membership for each post-Communist nation, and China's historic opening to the world. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR