Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-21-1997

Publication Title

Transition

First Page

15

Last Page

19

Additional Publication URL

http://www.tol.org/client/article/4645-the-middle-class-increasingly-fond-memories-of-a-grim-past.html

Abstract

Despite seemingly successful reforms in many post-communist countries, increasing numbers of people have been sliding from the middle class into poverty. Nostalgia for the late communist era is on the rise, and a new study warns that the perceived levels of social and economic decline surpass the actual ones-- which could spell trouble for the reformers.

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