The socialist countries of Southeast Europe, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, chose to move towards economic and political reforms. This attempted systemic transformation, called transition, proved to be a complex phenomenon. The prioritization of certain sectors, the pace and sequencing of reforms as well as the orientation of financing constitute some of the factors that shaped the transition. This study will attempt to examine to what extent the financial support to the transition on the part of the Bretton Woods institutions (IMF & IBRD) determined the parameters of the model which was...