Table of Contents

Introduction Jon Elster 1: The Roundtable Talks in Poland Wiktor Osiatynski 2: The Roundtable Talks in Hungary Andras Sajo 3: The Roundtable Talks in the German Democratic Republic Ulrich K. Preuss 4: The Roundtable Talks in Czechoslovakia Milos Calda 5: The Roundtable Talks in Bulgaria Rumyana Kolarova, Dimitr Dimitrov. 6: The Tiananmen Tragedy: The State-Society Relationship, Choices, and Mechanisms in Historical Perspective Tang Tsou Contributors Index

About the Author

Jon Elster is the Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science at Columbia University. He is the author of a dozen books, most recently Local Justice (1992), and the editor of eight books, most recently, with G. Loewenstein, Choices over Time (1992).