The demise of state socialism in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and
early 1990s left China the most notable member of a dwindling cohort of Communist Party …

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding
chapters of this book. The book demonstrates how" liberalization" allows state enterprises to …

China S PRESENT LEADERS have turned their backs upon revolution-ary solutions to the
problems of socialism. Are they also prepared to abandon the quest for socialism? As …

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the
1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in …

Yan Sun's examination of the debate within China over socialist thought from 1976 to 1992
is quite simply the most important book to be published on Chinese politics and the political …

Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving
toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated …

The rapid demise of Soviet-type regimes seems to confirm that communist ideology is either
resistant to change or, when it does change, changes totally, and that the belief factor is …

China has been experiencing a dynamic process of economic reform and social
modernisation for more than 25 years now. For those who follow the country's transformation …

Over the last decade, the Communist regime in China has undertaken a restructuring of
Chinese socialism. Most dramatic of the changes initiated by the regime is the redefinition of …

The Soviet model is the only version of socialism that gave birth to an alternative
socioeconomic system to that of capitalism. 1 After its development in the Soviet Union in the …