Table of Contents

I. THE STALINIST MOMENT
1: Yalta
2: The Truman Doctrine and the Two-Camp Policy
3: Stalinists
4: The Expulsion of Yugoslavia
5: The Purge Trials
II. THE MARXIST CRITIQUE
6: The Hungarian Revolution
7: Self-Management
8: The New Class
9: Marxian Oppsition in Poland
10: The Praxis Group
11: The Prague Spring
12: The Brezhnev Doctrine
III. ANTIPOLITICS AND THE RETREAT TO ETHICS
13: The Clerks
14: The Sphere of Culture
15: Ethics and Antipolitics
IV. THE RETURN OF POLITICS
16: Economic Problems
17: Poland in the Late 1970's
18: Solidarity
19: Central Europe
20: The Return of Solidarity
21: New Visions in Hungary
22: The Revolutions of 1989
V. AFTER THE FALL
23: Nationalism
24: The Collapse of Yugoslavia
25: Gorbachev's Legacy

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