Volume 55 Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988)
Arien Mack, Editor
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CENTRAL
AND EAST EUROPEAN SOCIAL RESEARCH -- PART 1
Volume 55 Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988) Arien Mack, Editor |
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This is the first of what we hope will be a series of special issues devoted to Central and Eastern European social science and social theory. This new project echoes the early history of Social Research, which was begun in 1934 by the small group of emigre European scholars who founded the University in Exile at the New School for Social Research. At its origin, Social Research was the voice of European social thought in the United States, articulated by those scholars who had fled from the horrors of Nazism. The intent of these special issues is now to bring the work of Central and Eastern European social scientists and social theorists to the attention of our English-reading audience. This project is only one aspect of an emerging set of ties between the New School for Social Research and the intellectual community of Central and Eastern Europe.
All of the papers in these volumes have been written by scholars currently living in one of the countries of Central or Eastern Europe and some, but not all, of the material could not have been published in the country in which it was written. The decision to include only authors currently living in Central and Eastern Europe was based on the view that it is these authors who are least likely to gain a voice in the West.
There are many people who have had a hand in making this issue possible, too many to acknowledge and thank properly. Some, however, whose assistance was essential must be singled out. This issue could not have been done without the generous support of the Central and Eastern European Publishing Project. Their grant not only made possible the many translations that were done for this issue but also enabled me to visit Eastern Europe and collect some of the material that appears here. I am especially grateful to these people who reviewed manuscripts, identified potential authors, and made helpful suggestions concerning these volumes: Timothy Garton Ash, Gyorgy Bence, Jane Cave, Elemer Hankiss, Aleksander Smolar, H. Gordon Skilling, and Paul Wilson. Finally there were the people I met in Warsaw, Budapest, and East Berlin, whose passion and capacity to pursue their work under inhospitable conditions was inspiring and the reason why doing this issue was of enormous personal importance.
Arien Mack
Editor
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(at time of publication)
Timothy Garton Ash is a senior associate member of St. Antony's College, Oxford, and a trustee of the Central and East European Publishing Project. His books include The Polish Revolution: Solidarity (1984).
Laszlo Bruszt is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Elemer Hankiss is research director at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Lena Kolarska-Bobinska is associate professor in the Institute os Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Robert Manchin is a research fellow at the Institute of Sociology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Mira Marody is assistant professor in the Institute of Sociology at Warsaw University.
Krzysztof Nowak is assistant professor in the Institute of Sociology at Warsaw University.
Marek Ziolkowski is associate professor and director of the Institute of Sociology at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland.
