Given the near-silence in technological and business history about post-World War II socialist enterprises, this book gives voice to a generation of Communist China’s managers, entrepreneurs, cadres, and workers from the Liberation to the early 1970s. Using recently-opened online archival...

This open access book asks why and how some of the developing countries have “emerged” under a set of similar global conditions, what led individual countries to choose the particular paths that led to their “emergence,” and what challenges confront them. If we are to understand the...

This open access book modifies and revitalizes the concept of the ‘developmental state’ to understand the politics of emerging economy through nuanced analysis on the roles of human agency in the context of structural transformation. In other words, there is a revived interest in the...

Preface -- Chapter 1 – Introduction: Hungary: Geography, History and Society to 1945 -- Chapter 2– The Theft Economy: Occupation and Forced Industrialization -- Chapter 3 – Agriculture from Stalinism to the Revolt -- Chapter 4 – An Unfinished Project: Constructing Socialist Construction...