The “Crisis Zone" Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s
The “Crisis Zone" Revisited: Central and Eastern Europe in the 1990s

Summary/Abstract: Central and Eastern Europe, a periphery of the advanced western half of the continent experienced severe crises of failed or sputtering modernization attempts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The agricultural and rural economy of the peasantry was preserved in this area until the mid-twentieth century. Relatively backward, the partially industrialized countries of the region could not respond positively to the challenge of repeated technological-industrial revolutions and structural crises in the late nineteenth century, and again in the interwar decades. They were unable to adjust to the requirements of the third and fourth technological-industrial revolutions of those periods. [...]

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