Bennett Kovrig

Preface to the Series The present volume is a component of a series wliich, when completed, will constitute a comprehensive survey of the many aspects of East European society. A part of the publication cost for this book was covered by a grant from the György Ránki Hungarian Chair of Indiana...

PREFACE Frankly speaking, undl the late 1980s most students of Eastern Europe never thought that a book such as this would be written during our lifetime. Like most political scientists specializing in East European affairs, we merely dared to dream of the end of Communist rule in the region. In...