Central and Eastern Europe, 1944 1993 - Detour from the Periphery to the Periphery

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Out from Europe: The Introduction of State Socialism, its Stalinist Decade and Revolts Against them: 1. Communist seizure of power, 1944-8; 2. The closed society in Stalinist state socialism after 1948; 3. Reforms, revolutions and the loosening bloc, the 1950s and 1960s; Part II. Temporary Success and Terminal Failure: The Post-Stalinist Decades - Modernization, Erosion and Collapse: 4. Post-Stalinist state socialism and its legitimization; 5. Economic and social performance of state socialism, 1950-89; 6. Crisis and erosion of state socialism, 1973-88; 7. The collapse: a revolutionary symphony in four movements, 1989; Part III. Back to Europe? Post-1989 Transformation and Pathways to the Future: 8. Building a parliamentary market system; 9. Economic decline - political change - rising nationalism; References; Names index; Subject index.

Summary

Drawing on his first-hand experience, Ivan Berend distils a huge array of material on the economies of the 'Eastern Bloc' countries during a period of revolutionary change. This is a major contribution to the economic history of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Berend, Ivan T. Berend
• Assisted by: Charles Feinstein (Editor), Patrick O'Brien (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.09.2007
• EAN: 9780521663526
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66352-6
• No. of pages: 436
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 628 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Modern Ec; Cambridge Studies in Modern Ec
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries