 | Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States Subjects: Finance Public -- Poland; Finance Public -- Russia (Federation); Fiscal policy -- Poland; Fiscal policy -- Russia (Federation); Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Poland; Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Russia (Federation); Poland -- Economic c; Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of multiple big and small battles between state coercion and societal capital gave rise to postcommunism's variant political and economic institutions. Gerald M. Easter is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is the author of Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia . |
