Communism's strength

democracy's weakness

Ferenc Fehér

3-9

Sources of strength and stress

10-18

From paralysis to self-destruction

Carlos Franqui

19-22

Sandinismo and war

dynamics of militarism in revolutionary Nicaragua

Humberto Belli

23-33

A dangerous civilization

Eduard Kuznetsov

34-37

Crocodiles cannot fly

Alexander Zinoviev

38-41

The paradigm of the boots

Miklós Haraszti

45-49

Toward post-totalitarianism

Agnes Heller

50-55

Socialist democracy

A question of survival

Franz Loeser

56-61

Castro's Cuba in the Gorbachev era

62-69

A future without communism

Ivan Sviták

70-82

Reforms are possible

Doan Van Toai

83-90

Poland

rebuilding social life

Jakub Karpiński

93-105

The emerging civil society

Zagorka Golubovic

106-115

Charter 77 and other independent movements

Jan Kavan

116-128

Dissent in Yugoslavia

Aleksa Djilas

129-134

Cultural resistance

parallel literature in Czechoslovakia

Jan Vladislav

135-141

Ethnic dissent in Eastern Europe

the Romanian—Hungarian conflict

Géza Szöcs

142-147

Cooperation and conflict

Paul Hollander

151-164

East bloc intellectuals

Antonín Liehm

165-169

A view from Bucharest

Mihai Botez

170-181

The anguish and joy of the Polish intellectual

Aleksander Smolar

182-188

Cultural dilemmas in contemporary Bulgaria

Atanas Slavov

189-193

Civilization versus anti-civilization

to graduate or not

Dorin Tudoran

194-200

Bitter love

Chinese intellectuals and the state

Judith Shapiro

201-206

Dialectics of disenchantment

Vladimir Tismaneanu

207-217