ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on analysis of social movements. It develops the partial model that can explain the reasons why some groups participate in social movements at certain times, while other groups participate at other times. The chapter shows the social movements in all of the countries except that of the Ceskoslovenska socialisticka republika. It examines that communication has been the most important collective-action problem faced by revolutionaries in Eastern Europe. The chapter presents a logical partial model that can provide a plausible explanation. It discusses why workers had a lower propensity to become dissidents than intellectuals had. The chapter describes a plausible explanation as to how workers perceive their interests during an economic crisis. It examines that decisions which outrage workers and directly lower their living standards increase their willingness to demonstrate. The chapter explains claim that professionals are more passive politically than either workers or intellectuals. For workers before 1989, the regime decisions were always in the economic arena.
