of the socialist system. Yet during the transition, agricultural production has declined. Low profits, high real interest … growth has resumed. The difficulties of ten years of rural transition offer lessons about the high costs of embedded …

socialist system. We also emphasise the diversity across the countries concerned. For the period of transition, itself …. The picture during transition, like that under socialism, is varied. Russia has experienced very sharp increases in … transition, a framework which would help interpretation of the evidence. …