Taking Stock of Shock by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein - 9780197549230

Name: Taking Stock of Shock by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein - 9780197549230
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Taking Stock of ShockSocial Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions\nAuthor(s): Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197549230, 978-0197549230\nSynopsis\nKristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe.\n After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally planned workers' states to liberal democracy (in most cases) and free markets. Thirty years later, postsocialist citizens remain sharply divided on the legacies of transition. Was it a success that produced great progress after a short recession, or a socio-economic catastrophe foisted on the East by Western capitalists? T.