Chapter 1: Victims and Outsiders--East Europe Before Communism

• A Fragmented World, 1918-45
• Messianic Delusions
• The Cominform and the Two Camps theory
• Overview

Chapter 2: Childred in the Fog--From People’s Democracies to "Developed Socialism"

• Purges and Witch-Hunts
• Tito’s Challenge and the Breakdown of Monolithic Rule
• The East European Stalinists
• Nikita Khrushchev and the "New Course"
• The Twentieth CPSU Congress: The Anti-Stalin Bombshell
• The Polish Crisis of 1956
• Freedom Reconquered: Imre Nagy and the Hungarian Revolution
• Attempts at Autonomy: Desatellitization and De-Staliniization in Romania and Albania
• Bulgaria: The Faithful Ally
• Conclusions

Chapter 3: From Thaw to Freeze--Eastern Europe under "Real Socialism"

• The Prague Spring and the Brezhnev Doctrine
• Revolts and Crackdowns in Poland

Chapter 4: A Glorious Resurrection--The Rise of Civil Society

• Premises for a Civil Society
• Poland: The Rebirth of the Civil Society
• The Politics of antipolitics: How Civil Society Emerges
• Dissent in Post-totalitarian Societies

Chapter 5: The Ethos of Civil Society

• From Civil Society to Political Pluralism

Chapter 6: The Triumph of the Powerless--Origins and Dynamics of the East European Upheaval

• Gorbachev The Revisionist
• Solidarity Redux and the Collapse of Polish Communism
• The Hungarian Breakthrough
• The Collapse of the GDR: Setting the Stage for the Collapse of Czechoslovak Communism
• Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution
• The Bulgarian Domino: The Anti-Zhivkov Coup
• The Siege of the Romanian Fortress
• Populism and Reforms in Yugoslavia
• The Warsaw Pact Reaction to Gorbachev

Chapter 7: The Birth Pangs of Democracy

• Between Euphoria and Rage

Epilogue: Fears, Phobias, Frustrations--Eastern Europe Between Ethocracy and Democracy