Sažetak The economic performance of some twenty East European transition countries,
including the European part of the former USSR, has meandered in many different directions
and is swamped by so many confusing facts that ample opportunities exist for opposite
views, some praising and some denigrating the transition and its results. Sometimes, the
prolonged and pesristent disputes and high social costs even call into question the very
need for transition. When this extreme position has been reached, it is time for a …