First the transition, then the crash Eastern Europe in the 2000s

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Introduction : the transition in Central and Eastern Europe / Gareth Dale -- Marx on 1989 / G.M. Tamás -- Workers in modern Russia / Mike Haynes -- Russia's foreign policy from Putin to Medvedev / Gonzalo Pozo -- Autocratic neoliberalism and beyond : Russia's caesarist journey into the global political economy / Owen North -- Twenty years lost : Latvia's failed development in the post-Soviet world / Jeff Sommers and Jānis Bērzin̦š -- The Ukrainian economy and the international financial crisis / Marko Bojcun -- Poland and the global political economy : from neoliberalism to populism (and back again) / Stuart Shields -- The Czech Republic : neoliberal reform and economic crisis / Ilona Švihlíková -- From poster boy of neoliberal transformation to basket case : Hungary and the global economic crisis / Adam Fabry -- Serbia from the October 2000 revolution to the crash / Martin Upchurch and Darko Marinković -- Conclusion : the 'crash' in Central and Eastern Europe / Gareth Dale and Jane Hardy.