The Economic Sources of Social Order Development in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe

ISBN-13: 9780415672429 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 274 str.

Richard Connolly

Opis

After the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced such divergent trajectories of political development. This text looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Economic Structure, the International Economy, and Social-order Development  3. Data Description, Measurement and Case Selection  4. The International Economy and Political Economy in the Post-socialist Region: An Historical Overview  5. Economic Structure, the International Economy and the Collapse of the Soviet Union  6. Russia: Natural Resource Sectors and Limited-access Social Order Development  7. Belarus and Romania: Contrasting Cases in Structural Transformation and Social Order Development  8. Estonia: Economic Diversification and Open-access Social Order Development  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Richard Connolly is a Lecturer in Political Economy at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, UK.