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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Part I . Patterns of Post -Communist Transformation -- Chapter 1. The Concept of Post-Communist Transformation -- 1.1. What Was Communism? -- 1.2. The Concept of the Exit from Communism -- 1.3. Conceptual Foundations of the Typology of Paths of Post-Communist Transformation -- Chapter 2. Orientations and Modes of Post-Communist Transformation -- 2.1. Orientations of the Exit from Communism: Concepts and Cases -- 2.2. Economic Modes of the Exit from Communism: Concepts and Cases -- 2.3. Political Modes of the Exit from Communism: Concepts and Cases -- Chapter 3. Economic and Political Outcomesof Post-Communist Transformation -- 3.1. Change and Diversity of Capitalismin the Comparative Economic Sociology and Political Economy -- 3.2. Rational Entrepreneurial Capitalism in the Post-Communist World -- 3.3. Political Oligarchic and State Capitalismin the Post-Communist World -- 3.4. Democracy, Authoritarianism, and Their Adjectives:Outcomes of Political Transformation -- Chapter 4. Pathways and Patterns of Post-Communist Transformation -- 4.1. Comparative Qualitative Analysis as a Method of Theory Building -- 4.2. From Empirically Observed to Counterfactual Waysof Post-Communist Transformation -- 4.3. All Ways of Post-Communist Transformation -- Part I I . Capitalism and Democracy in Post -CommunistLithuania : Deepening Comparative Contexts -- Chapter 5. Why Lithuania "Lagged" Behind Estonia? -- 5.1. A North-South Gap in the Post-Communist Transformationof the Baltic States as a Problem of Explanation -- 5.2. An Economic Explanation of Lithuania's Falling Back -- 5.3. A Political-Economic Explanation:Does the Blame Lay on Lithuanian Ex-Communists? -- 5.4. A Culturalist Explanation: "Weber's Thesis" for the Baltic Countries?.

5.5. Latvia and Other Difficulties of the Culturalist Explanationof the Estonia's Success: Towards Resolution -- Chapter 6. Between Estonia and Slovenia: Post-Communist Capitalism in Lithuania and Its Prospects -- 6.1. Baltic States and Slovenia as Extremitiesof Post-Communist Rational Entrepreneurial Capitalism -- 6.2. Baltic Capitalism(s) - New Liberal Market EconomiesBetween the Core and Periphery? -- 6.3. Could Lithuania Have Become the "Baltic Slovenia"? -- 6.4. How Slovenia Could Have Become the "Adriatic Lithuania" -- Chapter 7. The Presidential Impeachment as the Stress Testof the Liberal Democracy in Lithuania -- 7.1. Populism and Perils of Semi-Presidentialismin the Baltics and Central Europe -- 7.2. Paksasgate Story: Staging, Casting, and Plots about Plots -- 7.3. Did the Successful Impeachment of Rolandas Paksas Save Liberal Democracy in Lithuania from Breakdown? -- 7.4. Was it All Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing, or Why ImpeachmentDid Not Enhance the Quality of Democracy in Lithuania? -- Concluding Clarifications and Invitations -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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