Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath

Twenty-one essays debate the meaning of the end of communist power in Russia and Eastern Europe. Antohi (history, U. of Bucharest) and Tismaneanu (government and politics, U. of Maryland) have gathered the work of academics from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, political science, sociology, and historywork that discusses such issues as gender politics in the new states, the treatment of democratic intellectuals, the affect of privatization on individual lives, the possibilities for integration with the European Union, and the rise of nationalism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR