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This book addresses the policy questions around the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities.

Analyzing the effects of the break-up of the Soviet Union into 15 independent states, this text discusses past and present economic relations between the republics, and forecasts for the future as well as Customs Unions, Monetary Union or a Payments Union as possible ways forward.

This book focuses on survival strategies developed at local levels in response to changing cultural, political and economic conditions in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Stoliarov reviews the state of affairs in today's Russia as it strives to become a federal democracy securing the rights and liberties of its citizens, contrasting the two ideas of federalism and dictatorship of power.

This book provides a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal nationalism by focusing on the work of three eminent Lithuanian emigre scholars - Vytautas Kavolis, Aleksandras Shtromas and Tomas Venclova.

This edited collection presents the latest quantitative research on how post-communist countries are adapting to Western models of society.

Providing a unique level of coverage, this book provides a comprehensive survey of the political and economic development of the countries of the former Soviet Union, from the mid-1990s onwards.

Recent transitional developments in the former communist countries have aroused considerable interest among economists and political scientists alike. This text is a detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic.

This book offers an overview of reforms in state socialist agrarian systems during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. This experience is contrasted to reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba.

Investigates how elites have affected democratic development in Russia and how they influence the consolidation of the emerging political regime and post-communist patterns of behaviour and attitudes.

This study addresses the experience of, and responses to, poverty in a range of transition economies including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia.

In this new edition, the progress made in the last decade to solve the environmental problems described in the first edition is assessed. The attempts to bring environmental legislation into line with West European norms is also described.

The author presents a clear, detailed and accessible breakdown of the developments in; Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).

Most books on transition economies concentrate on their internal fortunes. Few have analysed the effect that the change in the system has had on foreign trade and export performance - this new book redresses that balance.

This collection brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars highlighting the varied and complex forms which work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-Soviet world.

Using a theoretical framework to explore Balkan experiments with regime change, the authors considers the relationship between political culture and democracy-building, and the problem of nationalism.

This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity; the French and American Revolutions.

Poland's transition from socialism to capitalism has been praised as a success story. However, according to this study, Poland's case is an "incomplete" transition. These essays suggest economic remedies, and demonstrate why some of them are politically difficult in the present political climate.

This book explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state. It finds that state building is an integral part of the transition process, as much as democratization and the establishment of a market economy.

An interdisciplinary approach is adopted by the contributors as they focus on survival strategies developed in response to changing cultural, political and economic structures in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Part of the ROUTLEDGE STUDIES OF SOCIETIES IN TRANSITION series.

This volume examines Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. Analysing major political and economic events in these countries from the mid-1990s to the present, a detailed and accessible guide is provided.

The author presents a clear, detailed and accessible breakdown of the developments in the Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia) and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.