ISBN:
9780415855105
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (399 p)
Series Statement:
BASEES / Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism : The Making and Breaking of State Socialist Society, and What Followed
DDC:
306.3/42094
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and transformation of state socialism. While focussing on Russia and the countries of Eastern Europe, he also engages in a discussion of the Chinese path. In response to the changing social structure and external demands, he outlines different scenarios of reform. He contends that European state socialism did not collapse but was consciously dismantled. He brings out the West's decisive support of the reform process and Gorbachev's significant role in tipping the balance of political forces in favour of an emergent ascendant cl
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I The making of state socialism and the market socialist critique; 1 Introduction; 2 Socialism in one country: The Soviet model of modernity; 3 State socialism in many countries; 4 The socialist market project; 5 China: From Maoism to the market; 6 Perestroika: Taking apart the planned economy; 7 Perestroika: Undermining the Soviet political system; 8 Underpinnings of reform: The changing social structure
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Social classes as movers of transformation10 The international context; 11 The move to capitalism and the alternatives; Part II The transformation to something else; 12 Diverging pathways; 13 Trajectories of transformation; 14 Civil society and the neo-liberal agenda; 15 Post-socialist states in the world economy; 16 Varieties of post-socialism; 17 What capitalism delivered; 18 The reconstitution of Russia: A new hegemon?; 19 'Coloured' revolutions: Political coup or people's revolution?; 20 What comes next?; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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