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Absenteeism
Author_Bartolomiej Kaminski
Authoritarianism
Bankruptcy
Boycott
Bribery
Capitalism
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Civil disorder
Communism
Communist revolution
Communist society
Communist state
Critique of the Gotha Program
Curtailment
De-Stalinization
Demoralization (warfare)
Depreciation
Deregulation
Devaluation
Dictatorship
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Disenchantment
Distrust
Economic problem
Economic stagnation
Economics
Economy
Election boycott
Embezzlement
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Externality
Failed state
Financial crisis
Inflation
Labor unrest
Layoff
Leninism
Market failure
Market socialism
Marxism
Marxism–Leninism
Mixed economy
Money illusion
New Departure (Democrats)
Obsolescence
Outsourcing
Persecution
Political apathy
Political decay
Population decline
Radicalization
Rationing
Recession
Revisionism (Marxism)
Sabotage
Scarcity (social psychology)
Shortage
Shortage economy
Slowdown
Socialist state
Stagflation
State capitalism
State socialism
Subversion
Suppression of dissent
Tax
Total loss
Totalitarianism
Trotskyism
Unemployment
Veto
War communism
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- ISBN 9780691609010
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Does the abrupt collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe arise only from errors in implementing the policy of state socialism, leaving the concept itself still a potentially valid one? Bartlomiej Kaminski argues to the contrary: state socialism is a fundamentally defective idea that was well carried out, enabling it to exist until its accumulated shortcomings made its survival extremely difficult. How did the flawed state-socialist system endure for so long? Why is it failing now? In answering these questions, Kaminski, who is both an economist and a political analyst, proposes a general theory and then applies it to the case of Poland. Contending that the breakdown of state socialism results from symbiosis of the state and the economy, the book describes how communist governments searched for tools that would replace the market mechanism and the rule of law. Doomed in advance by the absence of autonomy and competition, this search generated new crises by undermining the state's capacity to suppress individual interests and to direct the economy. Originally published in 1991.
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