Social orders cannot be changed like suits of clothes. It is one thing to expose serious defects in a social and political order. It is a different matter to transform that order into something better. Widespread antipathy toward the GDR regime was well-known, so it came as no surprise when the...

Attempts to explain why attempts at reform of post-Soviet agriculture following the demise of the Soviet commando-administrative economic system were so disappointing. Looks briefly at some of the obvious explanations: dependency on subsidies, inadequate physical and social infrastructure,...