Making Capitalism Without Capitalists Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-communist Central Europe

Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, Eleanor R. Townsley, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies Eleanor Townsley — 1998

Focuses on the transition from socialism to capitalism in Eastern Europe since the 1980s, where capitalism was made without a capitalist class. This text reflects on the sociological characteristics of the Communist system and offers a theory of post-Communist societies.