Constructing Capitalism

Kazimierz Z. Poznanski

Introduction -- Regional Political Economy -- Mind and Body: Ideology and Economy in the Collapse of Communism -- Two-Tiered Stalinism: A Case of Self-Destruction -- Political Economy of the Eastern European-Soviet Trade: Rethinking the Past and Searching for the Future -- Reconstruction of Markets -- Property Rights Perspective on Evolution of Communist-Type Economies -- The Affinity Between Ownership and Coordination Mechanisms: The Common Experience of Reform in Socialist Countries -- Divestment of State Capital: Alternative Forms and Timetable -- Dilemmas of Democratization -- The Reconstruction of Citizenship: Reverse Incorporation in Eastern Europe -- From Social Idea to Real World: Clash Between New Possibilities and Old Habits -- Main Paradoxes of the Democratic Change in Eastern Europe -- Epilogue: Markets and States in the Transformation of Post-Communist Europe