Introduction -- Who Should Learn What? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Homo Sovieticus -- 3 Managers and Post-Socialist Enterprises -- 4 Elites, Citizens, Working People, and Institutional Reconstruction -- 5 Modernization: Projects and Processes -- 6 Social Change and Modernization: Lessons From and For Eastern Europe -- 7 Neo-Modernization Analysis: New Theoretical Challenges -- References -- Part One. The Actors of Change -- Contemporary Russian Society and its Soviet Legacy : The Problem of State-Dependent Workers -- 1 Soviet Society and the State-Dependent Worker -- 2 The Emergence of State Dependency as a Historical Process -- 3 State-Dependent Worker and the Basic Social Groups -- 4 State-dependent Workers and Social Mobilization in Soviet Society -- 5 Basic Modes of Crisis-Adaptation -- 6 State Populism in the Russian Republic -- References -- New Entrepreneurs: Continuity or Change in Russian Economy and Society? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Modernization, the Russian Transition, and Entrepreneurs -- 3 Russian Entrepreneurs and their Contribution to Social Change -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- From the Communist Nomenklatura to Transformational Leadership: The Role of Management in the Post-communist Enterprises -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Management in the Communist Enterprises: The legacy of the past -- 3 The Agents of Domestic Change -- 4 Cultural change with Foreign Participation -- 5 Local Managerial Skills -- References -- Modernizing Post-Soviet Management: A Comparative View -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Socialist Enterprise -- 3 Post-Socialist Organizations -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Strategies of Post-communist Transformations: Elites as Institution-Builders -- 1 Political Elites and Institutional Change -- 2 Market and Democracy -- 3 Communism and Civil Society -- 4 Society, and Elites in Transition.

5 Elites as Institution Builders -- 6 Functional and Stratificational Perspectives on Elites -- 7 Design and Spontaneity -- 8 Strategies of Institution Building -- 9 Types of Political Elite -- 10 Systemic Obstacles to Post-communist Transformation -- 11 Types of Elites and the Quality of Transition -- References -- Part Two. Globalization, Retraditionalisation and Societal Modernisation -- Beyond Modernization: The Retraditionalisation of Ex- and Post-Yugoslavian Society -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Contradictory Coalition and its Inherent Dilemmas -- 3 Re-bureaucratization and New/Old Liasons -- 4 On the Fringes of the Global System -- 5 Reperipherialization as Retraditionalisation -- 6 Memorandum for Modernity -- 7 The New Nationalism Anathema of Reason? -- References -- Participation at the Firm Level in the Transformation Process (Three blank slips of paper and a pigeon feather) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Role of Participation in the Labour Relations System -- 3 The Forms and Dimensions of Participation -- 4 The Role and Importance of Participation in the Hungarian Labour Relations System -- 5 Changes in the Role and Place of Participation within the Labour Relations System since 1989 -- 6 A Managerial Initiative Rejected -- 7 Combining 'Voice' and 'Loyalty' -- 8 Changes Towards a Three-dimensional System of Participation -- References -- Polish Reforms: The Fine Art of Learning and Forgetting -- 1 How this Paper Began -- 2 Beauty and the Beast: The rise and fall of what used to be everybody's favourite fairy tale -- 3 The Discreet Charm of Simple Choices -- 4 From Simple Choice to a Choice Matrix -- 5 Learning to Forget -- 6 The Crowded Boat -- 7 From Newtonian to Einsteinian Sociology -- 8 Hybrid Theories for Hybrid Systems -- References -- Theory, Specificity, Change: Emulation, Selective Incorporation and Modernization -- 1 Basic Considerations.

2 Cross-Societal Emulation and Selective Incorporation -- 3 Other Conceptual and Analytical Problems -- 4 Modernization and Convergence -- 5 Globalization, Not Convergence -- 6 Comparative Dynamics and Modernization -- 7 Conclusion -- References -- Part Three. Social Change and Modernisation: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe -- Cultural and Civilizational Change: The Core of Post-communist Transition -- 1 In Search of Theoretical Resources -- 2 Cultural-civilizational Analysis -- 3 Three Heuristic Sources and their Tentative Applications -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Modernization in a Millenarian Decade: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rethinking Modernization -- 3 Lessons for East Europe -- 4 Lessons from Eastern Europe -- References -- From Post-Communism to Post-Modernity? Economy and Society in Eastern European Transformations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Changing Patterns of Modernization -- 3 The Negative Sociology of Analysis of Economic Reform -- 4 Bringing Sociology Back In -- 5 From Post-Communism to Post-Modernity? -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index.