ABSTRACT
Contemporary Eastern Europe belongs to what among Communist states is often referred to as the "family of socialist nations." Communist states perceive themselves as existing separate from the non-Communist international system in a political world where rules apply that do not maintain on the outside. On the most fundamental level, Eurocommunism is a demand to change the rules of the game within the Communist world. After 1917, as before, the international Communist movement was dedicated to proletarian internationalism. By the end of the summer of 1976, charges and countercharges centered first on the anniversary of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and subsequently on the nature and meaning of Eurocommunism. Yugoslavia presents a peculiar conceptual problem: In analyzing the impact of post-Tito Yugoslavia on Eastern Europe, one is dealing with a problem that to some extent defies Western-style categorization.
