ABSTRACT
This book studies socialist agrarian reforms and the ‘revolutions’ and subsequent transformational crises that characterize post-communist agrarian systems.
TOWARD A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK: CONTRADICTIONS AND REFORM SCENARIOS OF SOCIALIST ECONOMIES
In this section I will try to achieve two tasks. First, I use the framework presented by János Kornai in his book, The Socialist System (1992). Kornai identified five ‘dimensions’ in which socialist economic reforms have been attempted. I find his scheme extremely useful. It gives us a check-list of questions to address: which problems was a country ready to face at a given time? How did policy makers sequence various reform measures? How did multi-dimensionality and the sequencing of reform measures affect the economic performance of these economies?
