ABSTRACT
The political order in Eastern Europe has undergone great changes since the establishment of Communist-dominated regimes. In addition to administrative/organizational and coercive methods of societal control, the regimes of Eastern Europe maintain their sociopolitical and economic hegemony by means of their monopoly over economic planning and implementation as well as by their ideological monopoly. The process of postinvasion "normalization" in Czechoslovakia was a development that gradually but inexorably reestablished political and societal hegemony for the party after a period of relative pluralism in all areas of life, including the political realm. Eastern Europe has had a tradition of considerable political instability resulting from political and cultural nationalism and chauvinism. The development of political and cultural nationalism in Romania has been one of the most remarkable events in Eastern Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. The old nemesis of coercion and mobilization versus individual political autonomy will become a major problem in the 1980s.
