Ivan Szelenyi

Primary Group Structures and Their Functions: Kin, Neighbors, and Friends

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Circulation or reproduction pf elites during the postcommunist transformation of Eastern Europe

This special issue of Theory and Society reports the results of a crossnational comparative study of elite recruitment in postcommunist Eastern Europe. An international team of social scientists (composed of scholars from the United States and several Eastern European countries) conducted a large-scale survey under the title Social Stratification in Eastern Europe After 1989. These surveys were conducted in Russia and in five Eastern European countries (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia).

Housing policy in the emergent socialist mixed economy of Eastern Europe

Abstract The late 1980s signal a qualitatively new stage in the development of socialist economies. Earlier reforms attempted to move away from a monolithic, centrally planned system, to find more effective mechanisms of economic management, in particular to reduce the role of planning and increase the role of the market within the statist economy. But during the last two or three years a significant change has occurred in the reform discourse. The debate over ‘how much plan and how much market’ has come to be replaced by a call for a reform of ownership (Bauer, 1988). A ‘socialist mixed economy’, with a statist sector complemented by a private sector seems to be in the making. This paper has two aims. In the first part I present the trend towards a socialist mixed economy. I will explain the forces pointing in this direction, the likely functioning of a socialist mixed economy, and finally, how different a socialist mixed economy might be from a capitalist one. In the second part I look at the housing ec...