Table of Contents

List of Tables ix
Preface and Acknowledgements xi
I Meanings of 1989: Present Significance of the Past
1 Between Past and Future, Agnes Heller 3
2 On Two Models of Exit from Communism: Central Europe and
the Balkans, Jacques Rupnik
3 1989 as Rebirth, KarolSoltan
4 1989 and the Future of Democracy, Jeffrey C. Isaac
5 Habits of the Mind: Europe's Post-1989 Symbolic Geographies, SorinAntohi
II Winners and Losers in the Great Transformation
6 Independence Reborn and the Demons of the Velvet Revolution, Adam Michnik
7 Between Idealism and Realism: Reflections on the Political Landscape of Postcommunism, Martin PalouS
8 Postsocialisms, Valerie Bunce
9 Fighting for the Public Sphere: Democratic Intellectuals under Postcommunism, Vladimir Tismaneanu
HI Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies
10 Privatization as Transforming Persons, Katherine Verdery
11 Gendering Postsocialism: Reproduction as Politics in East Central Europe, Gail Kligman and Susan Gal
12 The Morals of Transition: Decline of Public Interest and Runaway Reforms in Eastern Europe, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski
13 Counterrevolution, Istvan Rev
14 The Handshake Tradition: A Decade of Consensus Politics Bears
Liberal Fruit in Hungary—But What Next?, Miklos Haraszti
15 Politics and Freedom, Ivan Vejvoda
IV The New Europe: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict
16 Electocracies and the Hobbesian Fishbowl of Postcommunist Politics, Karen Dawisha
17 The Europe Agreements and Transition: Unique Returns from Integrating into the European Union, Bartlomiej Kaminski
18 Nationalism in Postcommunist Russia: From Resignation to Anger, Ilya Prize!
19 Chinese Bridges to Postsocialist Europe, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom
20 Mickiewicz and the Question of Sacred Territory,Irena Grudzinska Gross
V Past, Present, Future
21 Conclusions, Timothy Garton Ash
Contributors
Name Index

About the Author

Sorin Antohi is Associate Professor of History at the University of Bucharest, and at Central European University, Budapest; he is currently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.


Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).

Reviews

"This is a book that will serve many intellectual tastes and interests, and that will certainly prove thought provoking for anyone who reads it... I recommend it to anybody who wants to witness the analythical depth and span with which the meaning of 1989 can be approached."
*Extremism & Democracy*

"The list of contributors is impressive with not a single dull chapter…; the editors are to be congratulated for making available such a stimulating and timely, if not timeless, collection."
*Slavic Review*