1. The great unknowns - post-socialist economies and societies in motion
2. Transition vs. transformation: what is clear and not so clear about transition economics
3. The economic and social context at the turn of the twentieth century: from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Union
4. The war economy and the post World War II reconstruction in the USSR
5. From war to wall to common market: the dialectics of the Eastern European socialist economy
6. The socialist economic model, market socialism, stagnation, perestroika, and the end of plan
7. Free market reform: liberalization, privatization, shock therapy, and policy misfortunes
8. Poverty, income inequality, labor migration, and diaspora potential
9. Contours of the new era post-transition economy: they are all different
10. Facing the present by knowing the past
