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Theorizing transition: The political economy of post-communist transformations

Pickles, John; Smith, Adrian; Staddon, Chad

Authors

John Pickles

Adrian Smith

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Chad Staddon Chad.Staddon@uwe.ac.uk
Professor/Associate Head of Department: Research and Scholarship



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John Pickles
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Adrian Smith
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Abstract

© 1998 John Pickles and Adrian Smith. All rights reserved. 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.

Citation

Smith, A., Pickles, J., & Staddon, C. (2005). J. Pickles, & A. Smith (Eds.), Theorizing transition: The political economy of post-communist transformations. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203982907

Book Type Book
Online Publication Date Aug 31, 2005
Publication Date Aug 31, 2005
Deposit Date Sep 28, 2019
Publisher Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
Pages 1-498
Book Title Theorizing Transition: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations
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DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203982907
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/3352253
Publisher URL https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9780203982907