The Transformation of Communist Systems

by Chavance, Bernard; Hauss, Charles

• ISBN13: 9780813319179
• ISBN10: 081331917X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-09-01
• Publisher: Westview Pr

Author Biography

Kayano Shigeru is the founder and director of the Kayano Shigeru Ainu Memorial Museum. He is a Diet member, the first Ainu to be elected. Kyoko Selden teaches Japanese at Cornell University. Lili Selden is a graduate student in Japanese literature at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Traditional System	p. 7
The Institutional Base	p. 9
Central Planning	p. 13
Other Parts of the System	p. 23
The Socialist Economy in Stalinist Doctrine	p. 29
Systemic Adjustments	p. 35
Poland: Pioneer and Then Laggard (1956-1979)	p. 37
Big Brother Modernizes: The Soviet Union (1957-1985)	p. 45
An Original Way: East Germany (1963-1989)	p. 53
Radical Reform	p. 59
Self-Management and the Retreat from Planning in Yugoslavia (1950-1964)	p. 61
Plan and Market in Czchoslovakia (1966-1969)	p. 71
Hungary's New Economic Mechanism (1968-1979)	p. 83
Modernization in China Under Deng Xiaoping (1979-1989)	p. 101
Toward the Dismantling of the System	p. 117
The Evolution of Reformist Ideas During the 1980s	p. 119
The New Yugoslav Experiments (1965-1991)	p. 133
Poland: from Solidarity to the Big Bang" (1980-1991)"	p. 147
The Hungarian Laboratory of Radicalization (1980-1991)	p. 169
From the Gdr to the Five New States (1990-1991)	p. 185
Conclusion	p. 195
Epilogue	p. 201
Selected Bibliography	p. 213
About the Book and Author	p. 215
Index	p. 217
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