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  1. Identity and Freedom

    Mapping Nationalism and Social Criticism in Twentieth Century Lithuania

    By Leondas Donskis

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    Identity and Freedom provides a discursive map of Lithuanian liberal nationalism by focusing on the work of three eminent Lithuanian émigré scholars - Vytautas Kavolis, Aleksandras Shtromas and Tomas Venclova. Presenting these critics of society - and also analysing the significant...

    Published December 5th 2001 by Routledge

  2. Poverty in Transition Economies

    Edited by Sandra Hutton, Gerry Redmond

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    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. It covers topics such as the definition of poverty lines and the measurement of poverty; the role of...

    Published March 22nd 2000 by Routledge

  3. Experimenting With Democracy

    Regime Change in the Balkans

    Edited by Tom Gallagher, Geoffrey Pridham

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been...

    Published October 13th 1999 by Routledge

  4. Politics and Society in Poland

    By Frances Millard

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization....

    Published July 28th 1999 by Routledge

  5. Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe

    Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic

    By Ed Clark, Anna Soulsby

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    This book provides a unique and detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. Drawing on in-depth case studies of organizational transformation, the authors adopt a social-institutionalist approach to the study of...

    Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge

  6. Green Post-Communism?

    Environmental Aid, Polish Innovation and Evolutionary Political Economics

    By Mikael Sandberg

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    This book asks whether foreign aid can help post-communist societies to steer their technological innovation systems in more environmentally sound directions. Mikael Sandberg examines the legacy of Soviet-type innovation systems, then looks at opportunities for greener innovations in post-communist...

    Published December 2nd 1998 by Routledge

  7. Financial Reforms in Eastern Europe

    A Policy Model for Poland

    By Kanhaya Gupta, Robert Lensink

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    This book presents a model which simulates the effects of financial reforms in transitional economies, which is then applied to Poland for a variety of policy simulations. The authors develop models for households, commerical banks and firms, expanding their enquiry into the government sector, the...

    Published August 26th 1998 by Routledge

  8. Privatizing the Land

    Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies

    Edited by Ivan Szelenyi

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different...

    Published June 3rd 1998 by Routledge

  9. Ukraine

    State and Nation Building

    By Taras Kuzio

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    Ukraine: State and Nation Building explores the transformation of Soviet Ukraine into an independent state and examines the new elites and their role in the state building process, as well as other attributes of the modern nation-state such as borders, symbols, myths and national histories....

    Published April 29th 1998 by Routledge

  10. Political Economy of Transition

    Opportunities and Limits of Transformation

    By Jozef M. van Brabant

    Series: Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition

    This book addresses the policy questions surrounding the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities. Jozef van Brabant considers in turn, the wider set of challenges facing these economies - stabilization,...

    Published March 25th 1998 by Routledge

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