Economic transformation in the post-Soviet republics : an overview / Gertrude Schroeder -- Economic transition in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus : a comparative perspective / Marek Dąbrowski and Rafał Antczak -- Integrating the unofficial economy into the dynamics of post-socialist economies : a framework of analysis and evidence / Daniel Kaufmann and Aleksander Kaliberda -- Russia's oil and gas exports to the former Soviet Union / Mikhail Korchemkin -- Foreign investment and trade in Kazakhstan / Serik Akhanov and Liazat Buranbayeva -- Central Asia : prospects for regional integration / Serik Primbetov -- Poverty and inequality in transition economies : what has actually happened / Branko Milanovic -- What's wrong with the Mafiya anyway? : an analysis of the economics of organized crime in Russia / James Millar -- Post-communist economics : expectations, entitlements, and disappointments / Aline Quester and George Quester -- Russian and the Commonwealth of Independent States in the emerging structure of the world economy / Leonid Friedman -- Reforming intergovernmental relations : Russia and the challenge of fiscal federalism / Christine I. Wallich --Unemployment and the labor market in transition : a review of experience in East Europe and Russia / Simon Commander and John McHale -- Learning to learn : emerging patterns of enterprise behavior in the Russian defense sector, 1992-95 / Yevgeny Kuznetsov -- Note on privatization in Moldova / Vladimir Gutsu -- Note on privatization in Georgia / Avtandil Silagadze and Teimuraz Beridze -- Global integration and the convergence of interests along key actors in the West, Russia, Ukraine, and the Commonwealth of Independent States / John P. Hardt and Gretchen R. Rodkey -- Factors affecting trade reorientation of the newly independent states / Bartlomiej Kaminski.