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Economic Dilemma of Eastern Europe: Technology, Trade and Forces of Modernization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Oleg Zinam
Oleg Zinam*
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University of Cincinnati
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The purpose of this study is to throw light on the past economic performance of six members of Comecon — Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania — and to assess their prospects for the future. Economic problems of Eastern Europe must be placed in a broad historical perspective containing crucial ideological, political, strategic and technological factors affecting economic functions and processes. Interaction of these factors is expressed within the framework of modernization, the forces of which exert a powerful influence on economic activities.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Spring 1983 , pp. 63 - 76
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Copyright © 1983 by the Association for the Study of the Nationalities (USSR and East Europe) Inc. 

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