ABSTRACT

This timely and assured book provides an essential guide to one of the biggest social, political and economic developments of our time.

chapter 1|13 pages

Introduction

Theorizing the changes in East-Central Europe

chapter 2|22 pages

After the patronage state

A model in search of class interests

chapter 3|22 pages

In pursuit of the democratic interest

The institutionalization of parties and interests in Eastern Europe

chapter 4|20 pages

Economic utopianism and sociological realism

Strategies for transformation in East-Central Europe

chapter 6|21 pages

Revolution and restoration

On the origins of right-wing radical ideology in Hungary

chapter 8|27 pages

Privatization in East-Central Europe

Similarities and contrasts in its application

chapter 9|20 pages

The great transformation and privatization

Three years of Polish experience

chapter 10|27 pages

The great deformation

Polanyi, Poland and the terrors of planned spontaneity

chapter 11|4 pages

Is there an alternative to market utopianism?

A comment on Glasman