This title was first published in 2000: A comparative analysis of market transformation in Poland, Belarus and the Baltic states with particular emphasis on cross-national variations in speed and direction of post-Communist economic reforms. While many studies tend to concentrate on the economic aspects of market reforms, analysis of the broader institutional framework is less common.

Contents: Introduction; Theoretical approaches to economic transformation: a comparison; Economic modes and market images in scholarly and political discourse prior to the collapse of the Soviet system; Conditions and outcomes of the first stage of post-Soviet economic reforms; Early privatization: expectations and realities; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.