ABSTRACT

The essays in this volume examine the historic and present-day role of the internal critics of the postwar regimes in Eastern Europe who, whatever their intentions, used Marxism as critique to demolish Marxism as ideocracy, but did not succeed in replacing it.

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

part I|133 pages

The Growth Years, 1960–1975

chapter 1|20 pages

Success, Challenge, and Response

chapter 2|24 pages

Historical Prologue

chapter 4|36 pages

Training: The Key To Craft Status

chapter 5|23 pages

Legislation and Public Policy

part II|112 pages

Challenge and Response, 1976–1993

chapter 6|25 pages

A Time of Troubles

chapter 7|35 pages

Counterattack

chapter 8|30 pages

The View from the Local Level

chapter 9|20 pages

The Future