The authors of the volume under review consider development Soviet political system during pre-war period. They focus on long-standing and still relevant issue scenarios for this possibilities to avoid concentration power in a single pair hands cult personality. At same time, move away from traditional personification process USSR, relegating struggle within leadership All-Union Communist Party...

We examine the phenomenom of wild capitalism under Post Communist transformation. Many commentators on post Communist transformation focus their attention on dysfunctional corporate governance and the deleterious consequences of liberalisation on business ethics. Poor business ethics and bad corporate governance may be a consequence of labour exploitation for comparative advantage, and the aban...

Albania was Italy’s most short-lived colony, under official fascist control only from the Italian invasion in 1939 until collapse of Mussolini’s regime 1943. However, although occupation brief, there had been a significant involvement since 1923. Thus, influence Fascism on and especially capital city Tirana immense, not least areas urban planning architecture, which retained intact by Communist...

Geographic research of the phenomenon inter-capital space Belarusian-Russian border region is an actual area problem for socio-economic geography Belarus and Russia. This due to objective need develop mechanisms overcoming demographic economic peripherality embedding regional systems regions into system local relations. The purpose identify current distinctive features development with establis...

This paper explores the forces that shaped China’s interprovincial inequality in the last five decades of communist rule. In so far as the change in interprovincial inequality is the result of differential growth in the provincial GDP per capita and provincial economic growth may be decomposed into contributions by total factor productivity and other factor inputs, a new method is introduced, b...

Decentralisation has an important meaning in the context of European integration, since a Europe composed of subsidiary spatial units is to be constructed and a ”Europe of regions” is on the agenda of many political discussions. From the early 1990s, the European Communities (EC), later the European Union (EU), promoted the idea of administrative decentralisation also in transformation countrie...