List of Tables Figures and Charts - Preface - Abbreviations - Map - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: GENERAL PART - Introduction - People and Technology in the Process of Transition; A. Lorentzen & M. Rostgaard - Transition and Transplantation of Economic Systems; H. Aage - PART 2: SOCIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE - Introduction; A. Lorentzen & M. Rostgaard - Social Consequences of Socio-political Transformation in Russia: The Process of Social Stratification; T. Savelieva - Characteristics of Privatisation in Hungary and Some of Its Social Effects; T. Laky - Entrepreneurial Inclinations in Hungary 1988-93; G. Lengyel - Changes in Work Organisation and Labour Relations in Hungary after 1989; M. Rostgaard - Labour Market Aspects of Transition in Eastern Europe (A Comparison between Five Countries); K. Foti - The Birth Decline in East Germany. A First Analysis; J. Fleishhacker - PART 3: TECHNOLOGICAL CAPACITIES IN TRANSITION - Introduction; A. Lorentzen & M. Rostgaard - Technological Development in a Period of Systemic Transformation: Polish Experience; J. Monkievicz - Technological Change in Hungarian Industry: is there a way?; A. Lorentzen - Restructuring Precision Engineering Industry in Hungary; A. Havas - Information and Power: Communist and Post-communist Experience; A. Krasteva - Scientific and Technological Potential of Ukraine during the Transition Period; L. Kavunenko & B. Malitsky - Central European Countries' Transformation and Their Integration with the EC Foreign Trade and Foreign Direct Investment; Z. Wysokinska - Final Remarks - Bibliography - Index. Language: English