This book is about the first twenty years of post-communist transformation in the Donbas (Ukraine) and Upper Silesia (Poland), the two largest industrial regions of Eastern Europe. It exposes a dramatic increase in inequality and poverty, persistently high levels of unemployment and of criminal and self-destructive behaviour, which have all characterised Upper Silesia's transition to capitalism. This study also shows how the Donbas population has suffered from a steep decline in living conditions and a sharp deterioration of healthcare and human development standards. Based on original primary data, this book stresses the detrimental impact on regional restructuring of the inherited structural liabilities and exogenous shocks emanating from the collapse of state socialism. The study's main argument, however, is that what determines the eventual outcome of transformation is not so much the legacy of the communist (or even pre-communist) past or the extent of neoliberalisation, but the success which a society has in moulding its major institutions - both inherited from state socialism and those copied from modern capitalism - in a complementary, reciprocally sustaining manner.
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Vlad Mykhnenko, BA, MA, MA, PhD: Studied International Relations and European Studies at the University of Kyiv (Taras Shevchenko) and Central European University (Budapest), before reading for a doctorate at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He is currently a research fellow in the School of Geography at the University of Nottingham.
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