Dieser Sammelband enthält Beiträge namhafter Soziologen aus West- und Ost zur Transformation im Ostblock, den Auswirkungen auf die Theorien sozialen Handelns, die Entstehung einer neuen Modernisierungs- und Konvergenztheorie und zur Rolle des Marktes bei Transformation und Modernisierung.

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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Who Should Learn What? / Grancelli, Bruno -- Part One: The Actors of Change -- Contemporary Russian Society and its Soviet Legacy: The Problem of State-Dependent Workers / Zaslavsky, Victor -- New Entrepreneurs: Continuity or Change in Russian Economy and Society? / Codagnone, Cristiano -- From the Communist Nomenklatura to Transformational Leadership: The Role of Management in the Post-communist Enterprises / Kozminski, Andrzej K. -- Modernizing Post-Soviet Management: A Comparative View / Grancelli, Bruno -- Strategies of Post-communist Transformations: Elites as Institution-Builders / Kaminski, Antoni Z. / Kurczewska, Joanna -- Part Two: Globalization, Retraditionalisation and Societal Modernisation -- Beyond Modernization: The Retraditionalisation of Ex- and Post- Yugoslavian Society / Schierup, Carl-Ulrik -- Participation at the Firm Level in the Transformation Process (Three blank slips of paper and a pigeon feather) / Makó, Csaba / Simonyi, Agnes -- Polish Reforms: The Fine Art of Learning and Forgetting / Ploszajski, Piotr -- Theory, Specificity, Change: Emulation, Selective Incorporation and Modernization / Robertson, Roland -- Part Three: Social Change and Modernisation: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe -- Cultural and Civilizational Change: The Core of Post-communist Transition / Sztompka, Piotr -- Modernization in a Millenarian Decade: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe / Tiryakian, Edward A. -- From Post-Communism to Post-Modernity? Economy and Society in Eastern European Transformations / Müller, Klaus -- Notes on Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index