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Here are a number of recent books on politics, economic policy, and business in central and east Europe and the former Soviet Union. The books are all in print, and are available for purchase via the links accompanying each listing.

While Okno attempts to choose books which would be useful for our readers and clients, listing here does not imply that Okno endorses the books or that they necessarily reflect the opinions of Okno Group.


The Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation : A Guide to Politics, Policies, and Leaders
by Robert W. Orttung (Editor)

M.E.Sharpe; September 2000
(Hardcover - 690 pages)


Economic Reform in Ukraine : The Unfinished Agenda
edited by Anders Aslund and Georges De Menil

M.E.Sharpe; September 2000
(Hardcover - 320 pages)


Kapitalizm: Russia's Struggle to Free Its Economy
by Rose Brady

Yale University Press; April 2000 (Paperback - 336 pages)


Without a Map : Political Tactics and Economic Reform in Russia
by Andrei Shleifer, Daniel Treisman

MIT Press; March 2000 (Hardcover - 232 pages)


The Meltdown of the Russian State : The Deformation and Collapse of the State in Russia
by Piroska Mohacsi Nagy

Edward Elgar Publishing; March 2000 (Hardcover - 160 pages)


Capitalism Russian-Style
by Thane Gustafson

Cambridge Univ Press; January 2000 (Paperback - 250 pages)


Stealing the State : Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions (Davis Center for Russian Studies Series, 89)
by Steven L. Solnick

Harvard Univ Press; October 1999
(Paperback - 351 pages)


Money Unmade : Barter and the Fate of Russian Capitalism
by David M. Woodruff

Cornell University Press; May 1999
(Hardcover - 228 pages)


Comrade Criminal : Russia's New Mafiya
by Stephen Handelman

Yale Univ Press; April 1997
(Paperback - 408 pages)


Privatizing Russia
by Maxim Boycko, Andrei Shleifer (Contrib.), Robert Vishny (Contrib.)

MIT Press; January 1997
(Paperback - 176 pages)


Kremlin Capitalism: The Privatization of the Russian Economy
by Joseph R. Blasi, Maya Kroumova (Contrib.), Douglas Kruse, Andrei Shleifer

ILR Press; November 1996
(Paperback - 160 pages)


How Russia Became a Market Economy
by Anders Aslund

Brookings Institute; May 1995
(Paperback - 378 pages)


Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe
by Mitchell A. Orenstein

Univ of Michigan Press; July 2001 (Paperback)


Evolution of the Hungarian Economy, 1848-1998: Paying the Bill for Goulash-Communism
(Atlantic Studies on Society in Change)
by Janos Kornai

East European Monographs/Columbia University Press; September 2000
(Hardcover - 300 pages)


Transition and Economics: Politics, Markets, and Firms
by Gerard Roland

MIT Press; August 2000
(Hardcover - 400 pages


Foreign Direct Investment in Central Eastern Europe: Case Studies of Firms in Transition
(Microeconomics of Transition Economies series)
edited by Saul Estrin, Xavier Richet, and Josef C. Brada

M.E.Sharpe; June 2000
(Hardcover - 304 pages)


Struggle and Hope: Essays on Stabilization and Reform in a Post-Socialist Economy (Studies in Comparative Economic Systems)
by Janos Kornai

Edward Elgar Publishing; 1999
(Paperback - 304 pages)


Postsocialist Pathways : Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Laszlo Bruszt, David Charles Stark

Cambridge Univ Press; February 1998 (Paperback - 304 pages)


Corporate Governance in Central Europe and Russia (World Bank/CEU Privatization Project)
Volume 1: Banks, Funds and Foreign Investors
Volume 2: Insiders and the State

Editors: Roman Frydman, Cheryl W. Gray, and Andrzej Rapaczynski

Central European University Press; February 1996


Commercial and Investment Law: Uzbekistan
by Lynda L. Maillet, Okno Group
(Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law, Columbia University, Commercial Law series)

Juris Publishing Inc; February 1995


Highway and Byways : Studies on Reform and Post-Communist Transition
by Janos Kornai

MIT Press; January 1995
(Hardcover - 264 pages)


The Privatization Process in Central Europe
by Roman Frydman, Andrzej Rapaczynski, John S. Earle

Central European University Press; December 1993
(Paperback - 276 pages)


Summer Meditations
by Vaclav Havel, Paul Wilson (Translator)

Vintage Books; June 1993
(Paperback - 149 pages)




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