Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twentyyear aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, statesponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic, and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions. The volume features paired comparisons, with one chapter on the countries from the former Soviet bloc and one on China for each of the following themes the reinstitutionalization of politics, the recasting of statesociety relations, the reform of economic systems, changes in economic behavior, and transformations of social institutions. Despite differences in the specific substantive focus and disciplinary grounding among individual chapters, all chapters share a concern with the fate of the state in postsocialism. They elaborate on topics such as the transformations of the old socialist state and its nature, activities and roles civil society before and after 1989 the ways in which the state has, or has not, acted to encourage new forms of economic behavior and the states responsibility for societal trends, whether in family formation, in protest or in inequality. Taking a unique approach to understand twentiethcentury socialism on a global scale, Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged uncovers...

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