Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

by John Pickles (Editor), Adrian Smith (Editor)

Overview

Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development.
The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134715640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/31/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	544
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Pickles, John; Smith, Adrian

Table of Contents

List of plates, List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, 1 Introduction: theorising transition and the political economy of transformation, Part I Theorising transition, Part II Industrial restructuring, uneven development and networks in transition, Part III Social and political movements and the politics of agrarian transition, Part IV Social transformation and the reconstruction of identities, Part V From the developmental state to hybrid capitalisms: comparative transitions, Index