Social Change and Modernization : Lessons from Eastern Europe

Intro -- Introduction -- Who Should Learn What? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Homo Sovieticus -- 3 Managers and Post-Socialist Enterprises -- 4 Elites, Citizens, Working People, and Institutional Reconstruction -- 5 Modernization: Projects and Processes -- 6 Social Change and Modernization: Lessons From and For Eastern Europe -- 7 Neo-Modernization Analysis: New Theoretical Challenges -- References -- Part One. The Actors of Change -- Contemporary Russian Society and its Soviet Legacy : The Problem of State-Dependent Workers -- 1 Soviet Society and the State-Dependent Worker -- 2 The Emergence of State Dependency as a Historical Process -- 3 State-Dependent Worker and the Basic Social Groups -- 4 State-dependent Workers and Social Mobilization in Soviet Society -- 5 Basic Modes of Crisis-Adaptation -- 6 State Populism in the Russian Republic -- References -- New Entrepreneurs: Continuity or Change in Russian Economy and Society? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modernization, the Russian Transition, and Entrepreneurs -- 3 Russian Entrepreneurs and their Contribution to Social Change -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- From the Communist Nomenklatura to Transformational Leadership: The Role of Management in the Post-communist Enterprises -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Management in the Communist Enterprises: The legacy of the past -- 3 The Agents of Domestic Change -- 4 Cultural change with Foreign Participation -- 5 Local Managerial Skills -- References -- Modernizing Post-Soviet Management: A Comparative View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Socialist Enterprise -- 3 Post-Socialist Organizations -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Strategies of Post-communist Transformations: Elites as Institution-Builders -- 1 Political Elites and Institutional Change -- 2 Market and Democracy -- 3 Communism and Civil Society -- 4 Society, and Elites in Transition.