Ivan Szelenyi

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 communist countries. The Soviet and Eastern European experience is contrasted with reforms in China, Vietnam and Cuba to provide the first comprehensive account of agricultural restructuring after the collapse of communism in Europe and Asia.

Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies

Privatizing the Land

Michael Harloe

Gregory Andrusz

Cities After Socialism is the first substantial and authoritative analysis of the role of cities in the transition to capitalism that is occurring in the former communist states of Easter Europe and the Soviet Union. It will be of equal value to urban specialists and to those who have a more general interest in the most dramatic socio-political event of the contemporary era - the collapse of state socialism. Written by an international group of leading experts in the field, Cities after socialism asks and answers some crucial questions about the nature of the emergent post-socialist urban system and the conflicts and inequalities which are being generated by the processes of change now occurring.

Urban and Regional Change and Conflict in Post-Socialist Societies

Cities After Socialism

Iván Szelényi

Robert Manchin

Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary

Socialist Entrepreneurs

This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. Our main question is to what extent the present system in Russia, the model of President Putin is a generic model for all post-communist capitalisms.

A comparative analysis of Russia, Eastern Europe and China

Varieties of Post-communist Capitalism

Ivan Szelenyi

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