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CENTRAL
AND EAST EUROPEAN SOCIAL RESEARCH--PART 2
Volume 55 Nos. 1-2 (Spring/Summer 1988) Arien Mack, Editor |
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Table of Contents
Introduction by H. Gordon Skilling Vaclav Benda, Milan Simecka, Ivan M. Jirous, Jiri Dienstbier, Vaclav Havel, Ladislav Hejdanek, and Jan Simsa Introduction by H. Gordon Skilling Jiri Otava Archie Brown Tat'yana Zaslavskaya Gabriele Eckart |
Recommended Reading Vol. 55 No. 1 (Spring 1988) East Europe: Where From, Where To? Vol. 57 No. 2 (Summer 1990) Nationalism: Central and East Europe Vol. 58 No. 4 (Winter 1991) The East Faces West; The West Faces East Vol. 60 No. 4 (Winter 1993) Nationalism Reexamined Vol. 63 No. 1 (Spring 1996) Gains and Losses of the Transition to Democracy Vol. 63 No. 2 (Summer 1996) Civil Society Revisited Vol. 68 No. 4 (Winter 2001) |
Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
Vaclav Benda a devout Catholic layman and a spokesman for Charter 77, served four years in prison.
Archie Brown a member of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, University, lectures on Soviet Institutions. He edited Political Culture and Communist Studies (1984).
Jiri Dienstbier a former Communist Party member, is a Charter 77 spokesman and a member of the Committee for the Defense of the Persecuted. He was imprisoned for three years.
Gabriele Eckart an East German author of short stories and poems, worked on a fruit-farming cooperative in the early 1980s.
Vaclav Havel is an internationally known playwright. His Letters to Olga (1988), written during four and a half years in jail, have just been published in America.
Ladislav Hejdanek a Charter 77 spokesman and a lay member for the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren, has written on problems of religion and politics in samizdat publications.
Ivan M. Jirous has served four terms in prison for his advocacy of youth and rock music.
Jiri Otava a pseudonym, is a former lecturer who has served time in prison.
Milan Simecka was a lecturer in political theory and author of books on socialist utopias.
Jan Simsa is a former Protestant clergyman.
H. Gordon Skilling is professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. His latest book is Samizdat and an Independent Society in Central and Eastern Europe (1988).
Tat'yana Zaslavskaya is director of the All-Union Center for the Study of Public Opinion, attached to the Central Trade Union Council and the State Committee for Labor of the USSR. She is also president of the Soviet Sociological Association.
