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Author:   Nigel Swain
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.451kg
ISBN:  

9780860915690

ISBN 10:   0860915697
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   17 June 1992
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Nigel Swain offers an authoritative explanation for the unexpected demise of 'goulash communism'. If you are looking for the lessons to be learned by the Left from 1989, start here. - Hugo Radice, Conference of Socialist Economics Often regarded as the 'happiest barracks in the camp', Hungary was the pioneer of reforms in the communist bloc. Nigel Swain's book is the first serious and balanced attempt to analyse this experiment in 'socialism with a human face' and to ask what went wrong. - Bill Lomax, University of Nottingham, author of Hungary 1956

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Nigel Swain is Deputy Director of the Centre for Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of Liverpool. His previous publications include Collective Farms Which Work? And (with P.G. Hareand H.K. Radice) Hungary: A Decade of Economic Reform.

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