Table of Contents

The crisis of the one-party state after Enver Hoxha's death, 1985-89; the emergence of pluralism, November 1990 - March 1991; popular forces and the end of communism; a democratic victory; religion; social and cultural change; Kosova and the question of national unification; the other national question - Macedonia and Montenegro; minorities; international relations and defence; the end of party politics - democracy under threat; renewed political tensions and the constitutional crisis.