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The Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe

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Written in 1995, shortly after the Cold War's end, the book has essays by distinguished analysts, several from Eastern Europe, looking at the aftermath. One topic was the environmental legacy of Soviet rule. Something largely unappreciated even by critics in western Europe during the Cold War. The article describes how the large scale industrialisation was often accompanied by little or no environmental monitoring. Because the state (ie. the various countries) owned the means of production, it had no checks on itself for environmental degradation.

One section of the text has studies on specific countries. A very quick synopsis of the challenges facing each, as they now had to face a global consumerist economy. Where the latter was heading rapidly into computerisation. While the eastern European countries invariably lagged badly in this field.