Emerging from Communism : lessons from Russia, China, and Eastern Europe / edited by Peter Boone, Stanislaw Gomulka, Richard Layard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Papers based on a series of meetings among members of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.

Contents : Why so much pain? An overview--Output : Causes of the decline and the recovery--Inflation : Causes, consequences, and cures.