Introduction : two outcomes of transformation / David Lane -- Communist nostalgia and its consequences in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine / Stephen White -- The social bases of reform and anti-reform in Russia and Ukraine / David Lane -- Social forces in the post-communist transition : why labour turns right / David Ost -- The European Union's influence on the development of capitalism in Central Europe / Philip Hanson -- The outcomes of the Czech economic transformation / Martin Myant -- The integration of the GDR into the Federal Republic : challenges and constraints / Rudi Schmidt -- The Russian transformation : a new form of etacratism? / Ovsey Shkaratan -- Effects of transformation on inequality in Russia / Nick Manning -- Inequalities in health and health care in post-communist Europe / Peggy Watson -- Mass privatization and the post-communist mortality crisis / Lawrence King and David Stuckler -- Belarus : prototype for market socialism? / Mario Nuti -- Transnational ties and transformation of Cuban socialism / Susan Eckstein -- Change and continuity in North Korea / Soyoung Kwon -- The impact of the demise of state socialism on China / Jeanne L. Wilson -- The consequences of the transformation on the Third World / Satoshi Mizobata.
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The collection considers several aspects of the transformation of the former state socialist countries: social and economic outcomes; forces in the transformation process; problems of consolidation of the new regimes; and alternative scenarios.