ABSTRACT
In the twentieth century the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) experienced two distinct modernising transformations of their space economies: a pre-948 capitalist modernisation (exacerbated in the early 1940s in countries such as Czechoslovakia by heightened investment by and demand from the German war economy)1 and a statist, centrally planned modernisation underpinned by the productivist logic resulting from economic integration into CMEA, with its associated regionally organised system of production and divisions of labour. Since the political changes of 1989, and with the liberalisation of economic policies that has followed in their wake, the same countries are now experiencing a third modernising of their political economies, including major transformations in their industrial geographies.
