An answer is sought to the question, why there is so little resistance to capitalism in contemporary Eastern Europe – which leads to the more general question, what are the specific features of capitalism in the former Soviet bloc. Since the tasks (according to the traditional theory) incumbent upon bourgeois revolutions have been fulfilled here by the Bolshevik revolution, the demiurge of East European modernity, secularization etc, both the remnants of the aristocratic-chivalric-ecclesiastic past and the elements of a proletarian socialism were annihilated. Result: East European capitalism is the purest version anywhere.