Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Green Banana of the Baltic States – Obstacles to Capitalist Development / Blom, Raimo / Meliti, Harri / Nikula, Jouko -- Contextualizing Social Stratification in Comparative Research / Leiulfsrud, Hâkon / Sohlberg, Peter -- The Beginning of the Working Class Movement in the Soviet Union and Post-Socialist Societies (1989-1991) / Gordon, Leonid -- Social Change and Marginality in Today's Russia / Chernish, Michail -- The Emergence of Civil Society in Estonia 1987-1994 / Ruutsoo, Rein -- Social Stratification under Privatization in Lithuania / Taljunaite, Meilute -- The Privatization of Agriculture and the Family Farm Ideology in the Baltic States / Alanen, Ilkka -- Women and Rural Development in Contemporary Estonia / Abrahams, Ray -- Notes on Contributorsweiterlesen