ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explores the political economy of Eastern Central Europe in a period of global structural change, achieving this through the admixture of historical analysis of the development of social forces. The predominantly national focus of much transitology can be explained by the ambivalence of nationalism during the communist period, a Cold War Sovietological emphasis on national communist governments in combination with the absence of organized social interests and the institutions of civil society during this period. The book then focuses on the Gramsci's contention that hegemonic activity even before the rise to power is an effective exercise in leadership. This occurred through the articulation of a series of new strategies of accumulation, models of economic growth linked to a framework of institutions and state policies that were capable of reproducing it in response to the ongoing organic crises of the Polish political economy.
