The Czechoslovak Economy 1948-1988: The Battle for Economic Reform

by Martin Myant

Overview

This book was published in 1989 and was written in the context of a strong impetus for internal reform in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. As Dr Myant shows, economic and political developments have been as entwined in Czechoslovakia as elsewhere in the COMECON network. He presents a detailed account of the development and performance of the Czech economy over a period of forty years, and reveals the problems and tensions created by the chosen system of centralised planning. The study shows clearly that economic change can only be understood in a broader international and political context, and highlights certain crucial formative periods, most notably the early the early 1950s, the early 1960s and, of course, 1968. Dr Myant's conclusion is that any economic reform will have little substance unless accompanied by appropriate political change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521143769
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/24/2010
Series:	Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies , #65
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The end of the Czechoslovak road; 2. Towards the Soviet system of management; 3. A new course without a new strategy; 4. From confidence to crisis; 5. Towards economic reform; 6. The reform falters; 7. 1968; 8. Intensification or stagnation?; 9. Relative decline; 10. The politics of 'restructuring'; Notes; Bibliography; Index.