Post-socialism and urban transition: Transforming the socialist city

Privatized Socialism: A Transitional Format for Post-Socialist Countries

It has become evident that many former EastGermans have a strong anxiety regarding a shift to a free market system. The nature of the anxiety has been analyzed in various ways and at various levels. At a superficial level, the anxiety is considered to stem from the disorientation in an unfamiliar system. At a second level, the anxiety is attributed to loss of the previous ego identity: the indi...

China’s Post-Socialist Inequality

Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 and the launch of market reforms under Deng Xiaoping’s leadership in 1978, China has undergone dramatic changes that have affected the lives of Chinese citizens in multiple ways. With the step-by-step dismantling of China’s system of centrally planned socialism and other reforms, growth rates have accelerated, producing rising living standards, reduced pove...

Authoritarianism, Democracy and the Transition to Socialism

city and socialist justice

justice demonstrates in behavior of any person with another person and in government behavior with the people of the society. social justice is a kind of justice that expresses this concept in society. selecting the slogan of justice from modernity1 by marxism caused the social justice be the main idea in the governance of communist cities. the idea that it is different concept based of marxist...

Institutions and the Changing Composition of International Trade in the Post-Socialist Transition

This paper examines the importance of market institutions in the transition from communism to a market economy. Blanchard and Kremer’s (1997) developed a partial equilibrium model explaining how, in the presence of imperfect information and incomplete contracts, liberalization causes the “disorganization” of traditional producer-supplier relationships in post-socialist economies and contributes...