List of plates

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

1 Introduction: theorising transition and the political economy of transformation

Adrian Smith

John Pickles

Part I Theorising transition

2 Regulating and institutionalising capitalisms: the micro-foundations of transformation in Eastern and Central Europe

Adrian Smith

Adam Swain

3 Organising diversity: evolutionary theory, network analysis and post-socialism

Gernot Grabber

David Stark

4 Differential development, institutions, modes of regulation and comparative transitions to capitalism: Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States and the former German Democratic Republic

Michael Dunford

Part II Industrial restructuring, uneven development and networks in transition

5 Institutions, social networks and ethnicity in the cultures of transition: industrial change, mass unemployment and regional transformation in Bulgaria

Robert Begg

John Pickles

6 Economic restructuring and regional change in Russia

Michael Bradshaw

Alison Stenning

Douglas Sutherland

7 Restructuring state enterprises: industrial geography and Eastern European transitions

John Pickles

8 Theorising trade unions in transition

Andrew Herod

9 Privatisation and the regional restructuring of coal mining in the Czech Republic after the collapse of state socialism

Petr Pavlinek

Part III Social and political movements and the politics of agrarian transition

10 Path dependence in Bulgarian agriculture

Mieke Meurs

Robert Begg

11 Defending class interests: Polish peasants in the first years of transformation

Krzysztof Gorlach

Patrick H. Mooney

12 Rurality and the construction of nation in Estonia

Tim Unwin

Part IV Social transformation and the reconstruction of identities

13 `The political' and its meaning for women: transition politics in Poland

Joanna Regulska

14 Imagined and imagining equality in East Central Europe: gender and ethnic differences in the economic transformation of Bulgaria

Mieke Meurs

15 Democratisation and the politics of water in Bulgaria: local protest and the 1994-5 Sofia water crisis

Caedmon Staddon

16 Social exclusion and the Roma in transition

David Sibley

Part V From the developmental state to hybrid capitalisms: comparative transitions

17 Denationalisation of the Mauritanian state

Mohameden Ould-Mey

18 `Sex and violence on the wild frontiers': the aftermath of state socialism in the periphery

James Derrick Sidaway

Marcus Power

19 Economic transformation in China: property regimes and social relations

Alan Smart

20 Recombinant capitalism: state, de-collectivisation and the agrarian question in Vietnam

Michael J. Watts

Index