Debates on the Future of Communism

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Communism’s Strength: Democracy’s Weakness....Pages 3-9
Sources of Strength and Stress....Pages 10-18
From Paralysis to Self-Destruction....Pages 19-22
Sandinismo and War: Dynamics of Militarism in Revolutionary Nicaragua....Pages 23-33
A Dangerous Civilization....Pages 34-37
Crocodiles Cannot Fly....Pages 38-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
The Paradigm of the Boots....Pages 45-49
Toward Post-Totalitarianism....Pages 50-55
Socialist Democracy: A Question of Survival....Pages 56-61
Castro’s Cuba in the Gorbachev Era....Pages 62-69
A Future Without Communism....Pages 70-82
Reforms Are Possible....Pages 83-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Poland: Rebuilding Social Life....Pages 93-105
The Emerging Civil Society....Pages 106-115
Charter 77 and Other Independent Movements....Pages 116-128
Dissent in Yugoslavia....Pages 129-134
Cultural Resistance: Parallel Literature in Czechoslovakia....Pages 135-141
Ethnic Dissent In Eastern Europe: The Romanian—Hungarian Conflict....Pages 142-147
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Cooperation and Conflict....Pages 151-164
East Bloc Intellectuals....Pages 165-169
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
A View From Bucharest....Pages 170-181
The Anguish and Joy of the Polish Intellectual....Pages 182-188
Cultural Dilemmas In Contemporary Bulgaria....Pages 189-193
Civilization versus Anti-Civilization: To Graduate Or Not....Pages 194-200
Bitter Love: Chinese Intellectuals and the State....Pages 201-206
Dialectics of Disenchantment....Pages 207-217
Back Matter....Pages 218-222