Making Capitalism Without Capitalists The New Ruling Elites in Eastern Europe

by Eyal, Gil; Szelenyi, Ivan; Townsley, Eleanor R.

• ISBN13: 9781859843123
• ISBN10: 1859843123
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-17
• Publisher: VERSO

Summary

Making Capitalism without Capitalists offers a new theory of the transition to capitalism. By telling the story of how capitalism is being built without capitalists in post-communist Central Europe it guides us towards a deeper understanding of the origins of modern capitalism.

Author Biography

Gil Eyal is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley Ivan Szelenyi is Professor of Sociology at UCLA Eleanor Townsley is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(16)
Classes and Elites in the Changing Structures of Twentieth-Century Central European Societies	17	(29)
The Second Bildungsburgertum: Intellectuals in the Transition from Socialism to Capitalism in Central Europe	46	(40)
The Ideology of the Post-Communist Power Elite	86	(27)
Post-Communist Managerialism: Theoretical Controversies and Social Struggles Over the Making of the New Propertied Class	113	(46)
Conclusions: The Contested Terrain of Class Formation in Post-Communist Central Europe	159	(70)
Appendices
I Data Sources: Social Stratification in Eastern Europe after 1989	197	(12)
II The `Master List' of Elite Populations	209	(19)
III Data sets created by TARKI	228	(1)
Notes	229	(21)
Bibliography	250	(16)
Index	266