This is Volume XI of a series of eleven of Economic and Society. Originally published in 1953, this includes a look at the Polish-Czech example- looking at the influence if USSR and bases of change in Poland; Czechoslovakia, commonalities and their transition to socialism.

INTRODUCTION, I. U.S.S.R. INFLUENCES Part I. Bases of Change: Poland II. WAR AND PRE-WAR HERITAGE III. EARLY RECONSTRUCTION Part II. Bases of Change: Czechoslovakia IV. INDUSTRIALIZED CZECHOSLOVAKIA V. REFORMS AND REVOLUTIONS 2. Nationality Question: Slovakia VI. TWO- AND FIVE-YEAR PLANS: CHANGING OBJECTIVES Part III. The Common Pattern VII. PLANNING METHODS AND THE GROWTH OF CONTROL VIII. SOCIALIST BANKING, SERVANT OF THE PLAN lX. THE STRUCTURE OF NATIONALIZED INDUSTRY X. A CASE STUDY IN NATIONALIZE'D INDUSTRY: THE BAT' A-SVIT CONCERN XI. LABOUR AND PRODUCTION XII. LABOUR AND SOCIAL SECURITY XIII. THE REORGANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE XIV. INTER-STATE ECONOMIC RELATIONS Part IV. 'Transition to ... Socialism 'XV. DISSOLVING THE PRIVATE SECTOR XVI. 'SOCIALIST INDUSTRIALIZATION'