Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger -- Living large : introduction -- Tuzex and the hustler : living it up in Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren -- Utopia gone terribly right : plutonium's "gated communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States /...

It is widely acknowledged that underground (unrecorded) economic activities play a major role in transition economies. Evaluations of the success and failure of the transition experience should therefore be based on total economic activity [TEA], namely, the sum of recorded and unrecorded...