ABSTRACT
Huntington may have mistaken apathy and resignation for positive embrace of the system and, in any event, he tied legitimacy both directly and indirectly to authority and coercive power, rather than to values and political culture. By the end of the 1970s, the economy was a problem throughout East Central Europe, indebtedness was high everywhere except for Albania, and disillusionment had set in, with the failure of the communist parties to deliver on their promises. The status of women changed in the Soviet bloc over the course of the years of communist rule. The largest religious bodies in the Soviet bloc were the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and the Lutheran Church. The German Democratic Republic's hard currency debt likewise swelled in the course of the 1980s, doubling from an already large debt of $11.6 billion in 1980 to $23.5 billion in 1989. The satraps had pursued policies having unintended consequences, presiding over a fundamentally dysfunctional system.
