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04309aam a2200457 i 4500 001 DB999AFA323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211021010114 008 210306s2021 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021000852 020 $a 0197549241 020 $a 9780197549247 020 $a 0197549233 020 $a 9780197549230 035 $a (OCoLC)1237395976 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a ac----- $a ee----- $a ac----- 050 00 $a HC244 $b .G495 2021 100 1 $a Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, $d 1970- $e author. 245 10 $a Taking stock of shock : $b social consequences of the 1989 revolutions / $c Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xvii, 280 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Transition from communism -- qualified success or utter catastrophe? -- The plan for a J-curve transition -- Plan meets reality -- Modifying the framework -- Counter-narratives of catastrophe -- Where have all the people gone? -- The mortality crisis -- Collapse in fertility -- Outmigration crisis -- Disappointment with transition -- Public opinion of winners and losers -- Evaluations shift over time -- Towards a new social contract? -- Portraits of desperation -- Resistance is futile -- Return to the past -- The patriotism of despair -- Conclusion: Towards an inclusive prosperity. 520 $a "Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book evaluates the social consequences of the post-1989 transition from state socialism to free market capitalism across Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Blending ethnographic accounts with economic, demographic, and public opinion data, Ghodsee and Orenstein provide insight into the development of new, unequal, social orders. It explores the contradictory narratives on transition promoted by Western international institutions and their opponents, one of qualified success and another of epic catastrophe, and surprisingly shows that data support both narratives, for different countries, regions, and people. While many citizens of the postsocialist countries experienced significant progress in living standards and life satisfaction, enabling them to catch up with the West after a relatively brief recession, others suffered demographic and social collapses resulting from rising economic precarity; large scale degradation of social welfare that came with privatization; and growing gender, class, and regional disparities that have accompanied neoliberal reforms. Transition recessions lasted for decades in many countries, exceeding the US Great Depression in severity. Some countries still have not returned to pre-1989 levels of economic production or mortality; some have lost more than one-fifth of their population and are projected to lose more. Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this book deploys a sweeping array of data from different social science fields to provide a more holistic perspective on the successes and failures of transition, while unpacking the failed assumptions and narratives of Western institutions, Eastern policymakers, and citizens of former socialist states"-- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Europe, Central $x Economic conditions $y 1989- 651 0 $a Europe, Eastern $x Economic conditions $y 1989- 651 0 $a Asia, Central $x Economic conditions $y 1991- 651 0 $a Former communist countries $x Economic conditions. 650 7 $a Economic history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901974 651 7 $a Central Asia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01240497 651 7 $a Central Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244544 651 7 $a Eastern Europe. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245079 651 7 $a Former communist countries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01298680 648 7 $a Since 1989 $2 fast 700 1 $a Orenstein, Mitchell A. $q (Mitchell Alexander), $e author. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ghodsee, Kristen Rogheh, 1970- $t Taking stock of shock $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021] $z 9780197549261 $w (DLC) 2021000853 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB999AFA323411EC8B1165C359ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search