11537. REFORMING POST-COMMUNIST ECONOMIES. Considers the problems and prospects for economic reform among the post-communist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Discusses the reasons behind the apparent success of Chinese economic reforms versus post-communist country economic reform. Looks at the relationship between political and economic reform, and the current consensus on the conditions and requirements to move the former centrally-planned economies to market. 17 pages, 45 footnotes, 29 bibliographic sources.