For about fifty years Marxist–Leninist political economy of socialism has been the supreme discipline of social science within the Soviet empire. Its development was by no means uncontroversial. So, it took till the early 1950s that together with the Stalinist economic system the doctrinal...

This book analyzes the political-economic implications of system transformation as experienced now in Central and Eastern Europe and in China. The whole societal organization being in motion and economic activitybeing in a deep recession, political leaders will find it extremely difficult to...

The book's central task is to look into the possibility of explaining theoretically the phenomenon of systemic change which we are observing rightnow in Central and Eastern Eu- rope. The process of transformation has economic, social, political, cultural and historical implications and is con-...

1. Introduction -- 2. From East to West: Modernization efforts in the northern and western regions of Poland (1944-1989) -- 3. The importance of technical progress for economic growth in the GDR -- 4. Inefficiency and intransparency in East German foreign trade -- 5. Historical Legacies of...

Die DDR und Polen haben von 1945 bis 1989 versucht, das kollektivistische Modernisierungsprojekt zu verwirklichen – den real existierenden Sozialismus. Das Buch vergleicht die unterschiedliche Entwicklung der systemtheoretischen und wirtschaftspolitischen Ideen in beiden Ländern. Trotz einer...

This collection of papers focuses on the recent pension reform experiences in Central-Eastern Europe, while starting from a broader theoretical and empirical context. It provides evidence for the political feasibility of radical pension reform, considered unlikely in the West. The approach is...