Introduction: Modernization, Europeanization and Path Dependency The Legacies. Picture of a Political Economy of Soviet-Style Socialism PART I: THE FORMATION OF THE CENTRAL STATES: THE REFORMS OF OWNERSHIP, SOCIAL WELFARE AND ADMINISTRATION Privatization and the Formation of East European States The Reforms of the Welfare States Regionalization Reforms and the Redistribution of Powers between Central and Regional Actors PART I: SOCIETIES AND MARKETS. WORKERS, PEASANTS, LABOUR UNIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Workers and Managers. Local Compromises and the End of the Working Classes The Agricultural Question. Public Laissez-faire and the Recomposition of Individual Strategies Labor Relations. The Weakness of the Social Dialogue Civil Societies. Networks of Sociability, Associations, and Public Debates The Development of the Social Structures and the Formation of New Cleavages

FRANÇOIS BAFOIL is a Senior Research Fellow (CNRS) at CERI-Sciences Po, France.