"This study draws on the contrasting approaches and experiences by China, Russia, and East Germany in transforming their socialist structures into more market based economies. It develops a realistic long-term perspective for the transformation of North Korea and Vietnam. Based on a comprehensive framework that captures the issues on the minds of political leaders, this study discovers intriguing similarities in the problems encountered by countries as different as China, Russia, and Germany on their road to market economy and the measures employed to address them"--P. [4] of cover.
