Eastern Europe's Unfinished Business
Eastern Europe's Unfinished Business

Summary/Abstract: There is widespread agreement among observers of East Central Europe that the region has experienced a general pluralization of political and social life, in the commonly understood sense (viz., the appearance of a multiplicity of alternative parties and associations independent of the government and not controlled by any other single agency). Except for a few isolated flat-earthers, who deny that anything revolutionary took place in 1989-90, including at least one scholar who professed to see the communist power monopoly still in place more than six years after the events of autumn 1989, most scholars are prepared to concede that there has been a measurable repluralization manifested in the frondescence of political parties, the growing heterogeneity in the press, and the re-emergence from the underground of independent theater, independent youth organizations (such as the Scouts), independent economic enterprises, and so forth. [...]

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