The Capitalist Transformation of State Socialism: The Making and Breaking of State Socialist Society, and What Followed

399 Pages·2013·4.475 MB·English

by  David Lane

The Capitalist Transformation of
State Socialism
David Lane outlines succinctly yet comprehensively the development and
transformation of state socialism. While focusing on Russia and the countries of
Eastern Europe, he also engages in a discussion of the Chinese path. In response
to the changing social structure and external demands, he outlines different
scenarios of reform. He contends that European state socialism did not collapse
but was consciously dismantled. He brings out the West’s decisive support of the
reform process and Gorbachev’s signi(cid:2) cant role in tipping the balance of
political forces in favour of an emergent ascendant class. In the post-socialist
period, he details developments in the economy and politics. He distinguishes
different political and economic trajectories of countries of the former USSR,
the new member states of the European Union, and China; and he notes the
attempts to promote further change through ‘coloured’ revolutions. The book
provides a detailed account not only of the unequal impact of transformation on
social inequality which has given rise to a privileged business and political class,
but also how far the changes have ful(cid:2) lled the promise of democracy promotion,
wealth creation and human development. Finally, in the context of globalization,
the author considers possible future political and economic developments for
Russia and China. Throughout, the author, a leading expert in the (cid:2) eld, brings to
bear his deep knowledge of socialist countries and draws on his research on the
former Soviet Union and visits to nearly all the former state socialist countries,
including China.
David Lane has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham
and is currently an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of
Cambridge, UK. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Cornell, Odense,
Kharkov, Sabanci (Istanbul), Shandong (China) and Graz universities.
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East
European studies
Series editor:
Richard Sakwa,
Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
Editorial Committee:
Roy Allison, St Antony’s College, Oxford
Birgit Beumers, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University
of Aberystwyth
Richard Connolly, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of
Birmingham
Terry Cox, Department of Central and East European Studies, University of
Glasgow
Peter Duncan, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College
London
Zoe Knox, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester
Rosalind Marsh, Department of European Studies and Modern Languages,
University of Bath
David Moon, Department of History, University of York
Hilary Pilkington, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester
Graham Timmins, Department of Politics, University of Birmingham
Stephen White, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow
Founding Editorial Committee Member:
G eorge Blazyca, Centre for Contemporary European Studies, University of Paisley
This series is published on behalf of BASEES (the British Association for Slavonic
and East European Studies). The series comprises original, high-quality, research-
level work by both new and established scholars on all aspects of Russian, Soviet,
post-Soviet and East European Studies in humanities and social science subjects.
1. Ukraine’s Foreign and Security 4. Repression and Resistance in
Policy, 1991–2000 Communist Europe
R oman Wolczuk J .C. Sharman
2. Political Parties in the Russian 5. Political Elites and the New Russia
Regions A nton Steen
D erek S. Hutcheson
6. Dostoevsky and the Idea of
3. Local Communities and Post- Russianness
Communist Transformation S arah Hudspith
E dited by Simon Smith
7. Performing Russia – Folk Revival 17. The Legacy of Soviet Dissent
and Russian Identity Dissidents, democratisation and
L aura J. Olson radical nationalism in Russia
Robert Horvath
8. Russian Transformations
E dited by Leo McCann 18. Russian and Soviet Film Adaptations
of Literature, 1900–2001
9. Soviet Music and Society under Screening the word
Lenin and Stalin Edited by Stephen Hutchings and
The baton and sickle Anat Vernitski
E dited by Neil Edmunds
19. Russia as a Great Power
10. State Building in Ukraine Dimensions of security under Putin
The Ukranian parliament, 1990–2003 Edited by Jakob Hedenskog,
Sarah Whitmore Vilhelm Konnander, Bertil Nygren,
Ingmar Oldberg and Christer
11. Defending Human Rights in Russia Pursiainen
Sergei Kovalyov, dissident and
Human Rights Commissioner, 20. Katyn and the Soviet Massacre
1969–2003 of 1940
Emma Gilligan Truth, justice and memory
George Sanford
12. Small-Town Russia
Postcommunist livelihoods 21. Conscience, Dissent and Reform in
and identities: a portrait of Soviet Russia
the Intelligentsia in Achit, Philip Boobbyer
Bednodemyanovsk and Zubtsov,
1999–2000 22. The Limits of Russian
Anne White Democratisation
Emergency powers and states of
13. Russian Society and the Orthodox emergency
Church Alexander N. Domrin
Religion in Russia after Communism
Zoe Knox 23. The Dilemmas of Destalinisation
A social and cultural history of
14. Russian Literary Culture in the reform in the Khrushchev era
Camera Age Edited by Polly Jones
The word as image
Stephen Hutchings 24. News Media and Power
in Russia
15. Between Stalin and Hitler Olessia Koltsova
Class war and race war on the Dvina,
1940–46 25. Post-Soviet Civil Society
Geoffrey Swain Democratization in Russia and the
Baltic States
16. Literature in Post-Communist Anders Uhlin
Russia and Eastern Europe
The Russian, Czech and Slovak 26. The Collapse of Communist Power
fi ction of the changes, 1988–98 in Poland
Rajendra A. Chitnis Jacqueline Hayden
27. Television, Democracy and 38. Peopling the Russian Periphery
Elections in Russia Borderland colonization in Eurasian
Sarah Oates history
Edited by Nicholas B. Breyfogle,
28. Russian Constitutionalism
Abby Schrader and Willard
Historical and contemporary Sunderland
development
Andrey N. Medushevsky 39. Russian Legal Culture Before and
After Communism
29. Late Stalinist Russia
Criminal justice, politics and the
Society between reconstruction
public sphere
and reinvention
Frances Nethercott
Edited by Juliane Fürst
30. The Transformation of Urban 40. Political and Social Thought in
Space in Post-Soviet Russia Post-Communist Russia
Konstantin Axenov, Isolde Brade Axel Kaehne
and Evgenij Bondarchuk
41. The Demise of the Soviet
31. Western Intellectuals and the Communist Party
Soviet Union, 1920–40 Atsushi Ogushi
From Red Square to the Left Bank
Ludmila Stern 42. Russian Policy towards China
and Japan
32. The Germans of the Soviet Union The El’tsin and Putin periods
Irina Mukhina Natasha Kuhrt
33. Re-constructing the Post-Soviet 43. Soviet Karelia
Industrial Region
Politics, planning and terror in
The Donbas in transition
Stalin’s Russia, 1920–1939
Edited by Adam Swain Nick Baron
34. Chechnya – Russia’s “War on
44. Reinventing Poland
Terror”
Economic and political
John Russell
transformation and evolving national
35. The New Right in the New Europe identity
Czech transformation and right-wing Edited by Martin Myant and Terry Cox
politics, 1989–2006
Seán Hanley 45. The Russian Revolution in Retreat,
1920–24
36. Democracy and Myth in Russia Soviet workers and the new
and Eastern Europe communist elite
Edited by Alexander Wöll and Simon Pirani
Harald Wydra
46. Democratisation and Gender in
37. Energy Dependency, Politics and Contemporary Russia
Corruption in the Former Soviet Suvi Salmenniemi
Union
Russia’s power, Oligarchs’ profi ts 47. Narrating Post/Communism
and Ukraine’s missing energy policy, Colonial discourse and Europe’s
1995–2006 borderline civilization
Margarita M. Balmaceda Nataša Kova(cid:2)cevic(cid:2)
48. Globalization and the State in 59. Democratic Elections in Poland,
Central and Eastern Europe 1991–2007
The politics of foreign direct Frances Millard
investment
Jan Drahokoupil 60. Critical Theory in Russia and the
West
49. Local Politics and Democratisation Alastair Renfrew and
in Russia Galin Tihanov
Cameron Ross
61. Promoting Democracy and Human
50. The Emancipation of the Serfs in Rights in Russia
Russia European organization and Russia’s
P eace arbitrators and the development socialization
of civil society Sinikukka Saari
Roxanne Easley
62. The Myth of the Russian
51. Federalism and Local Politics in Intelligentsia
Russia Old intellectuals in the new Russia
Edited by Cameron Ross and Adrian Inna Kochetkova
Campbell
63. Russia’s Federal Relations
52. Transitional Justice in Eastern
Putin’s reforms and management of
Europe and the former Soviet
the regions
Union Elena A. Chebankova
Reckoning with the communist past
Edited by Lavinia Stan 64. Constitutional Bargaining in
Russia, 1990–93
53. The Post-Soviet Russian Media
Institutions and uncertainty
Confl icting signals
Edward Morgan-Jones
Edited by Birgit Beumers,
Stephen Hutchings and 65. Building Big Business in Russia
Natalia Rulyova
The impact of informal corporate
governance practices
54. Minority Rights in Central and
Yuko Adachi
Eastern Europe
Edited by Bernd Rechel
66. Russia and Islam
55. Television and Culture in Putin’s State, society and radicalism
Russia: Remote Control Roland Dannreuther and
Stephen Hutchings and Natalia Luke March
Rulyova
67. Celebrity and Glamour in
56. The Making of Modern Lithuania Contemporary Russia
Tomas Balkelis Shocking chic
Edited by Helena Goscilo
57. Soviet State and Society Under and Vlad Strukov
Nikita Khrushchev
Melanie Ilic and Jeremy Smith 68. The Socialist Alternative to
Bolshevik Russia
58. Communism, Nationalism and The Socialist Revolutionary Party,
Ethnicity in Poland, 1944–1950 1917–1939
Michael Fleming Elizabeth White
69. Learning to Labour in Post-Soviet 80. Putin as Celebrity and Cultural Icon
Russia Edited by Helena Goscilo
Vocational youth in transition
Charles Walker 81. Russia – Democracy Versus
Modernization
70. Television and Presidential Power A dilemma for Russia and for the world
in Putin’s Russia Edited by Vladislav Inozemtsev and
Tina Burrett Piotr Dutkiewicz
71. Political Theory and Community 82. Putin’s Preventative Counter-
Building in Post-Soviet Russia Revolution
Edited by Oleg Kharkhordin and P ost-Soviet authoritarianism and the
Risto Alapuro spectre of Velvet Revolution
Robert Horvath
72. Disease, Health Care and
Government in Late Imperial Russia 83. The Baltic States from the Soviet
Union to the European Union
L ife and death on the Volga, 1823–1914
Charlotte E. Henze Identity, discourse and power in the
post-communist transition of Estonia,
73. Khrushchev in the Kremlin Latvia and Lithuania
Policy and government in the Soviet Richard Mole
Union, 1953–1964
84. The EU–Russia Borderland
Edited by Melanie Ilic and Jeremy
New contexts for regional cooperation
Smith
Edited by Heikki Eskelinen, Ilkka
74. Citizens in the Making in Post- Liikanen and James W. Scott
Soviet States 85. The Economic Sources of Social
Olena Nikolayenko
Order Development in Post-
Socialist Eastern Europe
75. The Decline of Regionalism in
Richard Connolly
Putin’s Russia
Boundary issues 86. East European Diasporas,
J. Paul Goode Migration and Cosmopolitanism
Edited by Ulrike Ziemer and
76. The Communist Youth League and
Sean P. Roberts
the Transformation of the Soviet
Union, 1917–1932 87. Civil Society in Putin’s Russia
Matthias Neumann Elena Chebankova
77. Putin’s United Russia Party 88. Post-Communist Poland – Contested
S. P. Roberts Pasts and Future Identities
Ewa Ochman
78. The European Union and its
Eastern Neighbours 89. Soviet Economic Management
T owards a more ambitious partnership? under Khrushchev
Elena Korosteleva The Sovnarkhoz reform
Nataliya Kibita
79. Russia’s Identity in International
Relations 90. Soviet Consumer Culture in the
Images, perceptions, misperceptions Brezhnev Era
Edited by Ray Taras Natalya Chernyshova
91. The Transition to Democracy in 94. Disability in Eastern Europe and
Hungary the Former Soviet Union
Árpád Göncz and the post-communist History, policy and everyday life
Hungarian presidency Edited by Michael Rasell
Dae Soon Kim and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova
92. The Politics of HIV/AIDS in Russia 95. The Making and Breaking of
Ulla Pape Soviet Lithuania
Memory and modernity in the wake
93. The Capitalist Transformation of of war
State Socialism Violeta Davoli(cid:3)té
The making and breaking of state
socialist society, and what followed
David Lane
Thispageintentionallyleftblank
The Capitalist Transformation
of State Socialism
The making and breaking of state socialist
society, and what followed
David Lane