Download or read book Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged written by Nina Bandelj and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions.