Theorizing transition: The political economy of post-communist transformations

Pickles, John; Smith, Adrian; Staddon, Chad

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.

• 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
• 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