Description: 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

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