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Theorising Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

By John Pickles

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
1998
ISBN
0415162661, 9780415162661, 9780203982907
LCC
HC244 .T45 1998
Open Library ID
OL684063M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5273932 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
519\519
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.

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