Bandelj Nina - Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged

Eastern Europe and China, 19892009

EDITED BY NINA BANDELJ
and
DOROTHY J. SOLINGER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Socialism vanquished, socialism challenged: Eastern Europe and China, 19892009 / edited by Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780199895977 (hardback)ISBN 9780199895960 (pbk.) 1. Europe, EasternPolitics and government1989 2. Post-communismEurope, Eastern. 3. Europe, EasternEconomic policy1989 4. ChinaPolitics and government19762002. 5. ChinaPolitics and government2002 6. Post-communismChina. 7. ChinaEconomic policy19762000. 8. ChinaEconomic policy2000
I. Bandelj, Nina. II. Solinger, Dorothy J.
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This volume is the product of a conference convened in November 2009 on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The meeting was organized and held in commemoration of that event and to evoke the memory of the popular protests that broke out seven months earlier across Chinawith their largest manifestation at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Our first objective was to appraise the longer-term outcomes of these spectacular episodes; a second aim was to draw comparisons across fields of activityin politics, economics, culture, and state-society relationsin these two disparate parts of the globe. In one, state socialism as it had been known for decades was vanquished, obliterated; in the other, under the name if not really the substance of socialism, it limps forward, though under challenge. As editors, we have learned a great deal in the process; we hope that readers of this volume will have the same experience.

Of all those who must be thanked, the authors come first. We were fortunate to work with a group of creative and highly knowledgeable scholars whose contributions we celebrate along with the publication of the book. Much gratitude goes to these people, for their hard work, their insights, and their patience through a number of rounds of revision.

The original meeting included others whose papers, while stimulating and valuable, in the end did not fit as well into the project we envisioned as the ten papers we selected did. These scholars are Leszek Balcerowicz, Martin Dimitrov, Wade Jacoby, Antoni Kaminski, Bartlomiej Kaminski, David Laitin, Victor Nee, David Stark, Ivan Szelenyi, Daniel Treisman, and Jeffrey Wasserstrom. We thank all of them for their contributions, both written and oral, at the conference. We also appreciate the job done by discussants Ewa Balcerowicz, Thomas Bernstein, Lei Guang, Barbara Heyns, Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth Pomeranz, David Smith, and Yuliya Tverdova. Thomas Bernstein also assisted with the introduction to the volume and with writing the proposal that earned us funds to hold the gathering. Marek Kaminski and Su Yang served on the organizing committee, as did Thomas Bernstein, David Smith, and Yuliya Tverdova.

So much of the supportive work that made the venture possible was done by Elizabeth Sowers, who took time from her own doctoral research to help with the coordination of and the logistics for the meeting and also with a great many of the tasks involved in the preparation of the final manuscript. Paul Morgan also took time from his own work to assist in formatting the figures in the book.

Certainly we would never have been able to hold the meeting without generous funding from the University of California, Irvine, Center for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and from the American Council of Learned Societies. The idea to hold the conference came from the then director of the CSD, Bernard Grofman. We are much indebted to his designating our conference the signature conference of the year for the center. We also gratefully acknowledge support from the University of California, Irvines Office of Research, Center for Asian Studies, Department of Sociology, Department of Political Science, International Studies Program, and the University of California Multi-Campus Research Program in World History.

Finally, this book could never have come into existence without the hard work and excellent support we received from our editor and his assistant at the press, David McBride and Caelyn Cobb. We also appreciate the fine reviews done for us by two (originally) anonymous readers, one of whom turned out to be Meg Rithmire.

Now that the countries of the Eastern European region no longer are labeled socialist, it is sometimes claimed that scholars can no more pit the structures and activities of these nations against those of China for comparative purposes. We hope that this collection will lay that claim to rest and, perhaps, inspire more works on this fascinating theme, the aftermath of the great twentieth-century experiment in established, state-sponsored socialism.

Nina Bandelj is associate professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research examines the social and cultural bases of economic phenomena, and social change in postsocialist Europe. Bandelj has published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Theory and Society, and Socio-Economic Review, among other journals. She is the author of From Communists to Foreign Capitalists: The Social Foundations of Foreign Direct Investment in Postsocialist Europe (Princeton University Press, 2008), Economy and State: A Sociological Perspective (with Elizabeth Sowers, Polity Press, 2010), and editor of Economic Sociology of Work (Emerald Publishing, 2009) and The Cultural Wealth of Nations (with Frederick F. Wherry, Stanford University Press, 2011).

Jzsef Brcz is professor of sociology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, with additional affiliations at the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University and the Institute for Political Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of the award-winning