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This is the third special Central and Eastern Europe
issue of Social Research. The first appeared in 1988, when
authoritarian regimes were still in power and optimism about rapid change
seemed delusional. The second appeared in 1990 during the flush of
excitement following their precipitous collapse. The present issue
comes at a time which is as different from those occasions as they are
from each other. If the mood at the time of the first issue was static
and grim and at the time of the second tumultuous and euphoric, the current
mood is anxious and pessimistic. Although the manifestations differ
from country to country, each country is struggling to find a way to endure
the harsh consequences that seem inevitably to follow in the wake
of the changes and the turn toward an idealized "market economy."
One of the consequences which all these countries are now confronting,
although to different degrees, is a clamorous and sometimes bloody bid
for autonomy from long-repressed ethnic minorities and from groups of citizens
from countries which earlier had been annexed or absorbed. Many of
the papers describe this situation and attempt to explain it. The
principal subject of the issue is nationalism in Central and Eastern
Europe.
As the papers in this issue make clear, the current
surge of nationalism, which not only shows no signs of abating but rather
seems to be intensifying, seriously threatens the fragile attempts at democracy.
Moreover, as some of the authors point out, even if nationalist demands
are construed as legitimate bids for democratic self determination, and
some surely are, their realization is likely to have unwanted consequences.
If it is true, as several of the authors assert, that the hope for the
future of democracy in Central and Eastern Europe lies in integration with
the West, then nationalist demands are likely to be counterproductive since
they come at a time when the West is moving away from strong nation-states
toward common markets and relaxed borders. For this reason and others
detailed in the papers in this issue, it is difficult not to join in the
pessimism of the majority of the authors. The one hope is that we
are wrong again. Since in 1988 no one predicted the quick downfall
of the authoritarian regimes, perhaps again no one in 1991 is correctly
predicting the course of future events.
This issue, like those that preceded it, could not
have been done without the generous support of the Central and East European
Publishing Project. Again I would like to thank them for their assistance.
I would also like to acknowledge the Mellon Foundation's support of the
New School's East and Central Europe Program under whose auspices I traveled
to Poland and Romania during the period in which I was gathering material
for this issue. Finally I would like to thank Elzbieta Matynia, the
director of the Program, whose advice and efforts in behalf of this issue
were invaluable. She was the source of many of the articles, the
translator of the paper by Michnik, and was always graciously prepared
to read papers and offer informed advice.
Table of Contents
Nationalism in Central and Eastern
Europe
Editor's Introduction 709
Polish Democracy: Dreams
and Reality
Jerzy Szacki
711
Anti-Semitism in the 1990 Polish
Presidential Election
Konstanty Gebert
723
Nationalism Adam Michnik 757
The Solidarity of the Culpabl Jirina Siklova 765
Nationalism as a Totalitarian
Ideology
Jan Urban
775
The Unfinished Revolutions of
1989: The Decline of the
Nation-State?
Ferenc Miszlivetz
781
National Fervor in Eastern
Europe: The Case of Romania
Pavel Campeanu
805
Roma-Gypsy Ethnicity Nicolae Gheorghe 829
The Reemergence of the
Ukrainian Nation and Cossack
Mythology
Frank Sysyn
845
Capitalism by Democratic
Design? Democratic Theory
Facing the Triple Transition in
East Central Europe
Claus Offe
865
Upheavals in the East and
Turmoil in Political Theory:
Comments on Offe's "Capitalism
by Democratic Design?"
Emanuel Richter
893
Table of Contents and Index of
Contributors to Volume 58
903
Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
Pavel Campeanu is professor and director of the Independent Center for Surveys in Bucharest.
Konstanty Gebert a journalist, contributes frequently to the Warsaw daily Gazeta Wyborcza.
Nicolae Gheorghe is a member of the Institute of Sociology in Bucharest.
Adam Michnik, a member of the Polish parliament, is editor of the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza.
Ferenc Miszlivetz is director of research at the Center for European Studies/Institue of Sociology in Budapest.
Claus Offe is on the faculty of the Center for Social Policy Research at the University of Bremen.
Emanuel Richter is Alexander von Humboldt Visting Scholar at the Graduate School for Social Research.
Jirina Siklova is in the Department of Sociology in the Philosophical Faculty at Charles University, Prague.
Frank E. Sysyn is director of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research at the University of Alberta, Edmonton.
Jerzy Szacki is a professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Jan Urban, a historian and journalist, is a political writer
for the newspaper Lidove Noviny in Prague.
