The global financial crisis has provided an important opportunity to revisit debates about post-socialist transition and the relative success of different reform paths. This new volume from a prestigious group of scholars analyzes the resilience of post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEECs) to the international crisis, assessing each country's institutional transformation, policies, and local adaptations in order to take an overall view of the region's prospects.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part I Post-Communism Transformation in Russia and Ukraine

Chapter 1 Transformation

Chapter 2 Benchmarks

Part II Former-Soviet Union

Chapter 3 Russia

Chapter 4 The Kremlin Strikes Back

Chapter 5 Economic Prospects

Chapter 6 Ukraine

Part III Central Europe: The Visegrad Four

Chapter 7 - Waiting for change

Chapter 8 - Central Europe on the eve of transformation

Chapter 9 - The many facets of transformation

Chapter 10 - Transformation at work

Chapter 11 - The crisis: from imported to home-made

Chapter 12 - Transformation and crisis in Central Europe: An Assessment

Bruno Dallago is Professor of Economics at the University of Trento and Director of the Research Unit on Local Development and Global Governance, Italy.

Steven Rosefielde is Professor of Economics at the University of North Carolina, USA.