Introduction : points of permeable contact -- History and theory in practice -- Precocious reformer : Hungary -- Injustice: poland 1948--1980 -- Poland : from solidarity to 1989 -- Hungary : property relations recast -- Schumpeter by the Danube : from second economy to private sector -- Action and reaction : institutional consequences of private-sector expansion -- Conclusion : despotism, discovery, and surprise
Summary
"In The Political Economy of State-Society Relations in Hungary and Poland, Anna Seleny contends that the profound transformations that preceded the downfall of communism originated in Poland and Hungary but played out in strikingly different ways - Hungary led through economic reform, Poland through open political struggle."--BOOK JACKET
