Table of Contents

Tables ix
Preface to the Second Edition x
Preface to the First Edition xi
Abbreviations xv
I. Introduction 3
2. Social Currents and Social Change 24
II. Dissent and Parallel Society in the 1980s
3. Disaffection and Dissent in East Germany 55
4. Underground Solidarity and Parallel Society in Poland 84
5. Independent Activism in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Romania 120
III. Religious and Ethnic Currents
6. Religious Change and New Cults in Eastern Europe 155
7. Church and Dissent in Praetorian Poland 178
8. Serb-Albanian Tensions in Kosovo 196
IV. A New Generation
9. Feminism in Yugoslavia 219
10. Rock Music and Counterculture 234
11. Young People: The Lost Generation 262
V. Collapse of the Old Order
12. Bulgaria: A Weak Society 279
13. Strong Societies: Hungary, Poland, and Yugoslavia 288
14. Dominoes: East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and the Future of Europe 313
15. The Great Transformation 338
VI. Building New Systems
16. Core Tasks for a Pluralist Order 371
17. Yugoslav Breakup and Ethnic War 401
18. Civil Society and Uncivil Chauvinism 431
19. Propositions About the Future 455
Appendixes: Public Opinion Polls 461
Notes 483
Selected Bibliography 565
Index 569

About the Author

Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Nihil Obstat (Duke University Press).

Reviews

"Ramet thoroughly examines how societal changes catalyzed political changes in Eastern Europe. . . . Religion, rock, feminism, and environmental activism are among the areas she explores in this engaging, well-written survey."
--Current History