List of Tables ix Preface and Acknowledgements xi I Meanings of 1989: Present Significance of the Past 1 Between Past and Future, Agnes Heller 3 2 On Two Models of Exit from Communism: Central Europe and the Balkans, Jacques Rupnik 3 1989 as Rebirth, KarolSoltan 4 1989 and the Future of Democracy, Jeffrey C. Isaac 5 Habits of the Mind: Europe's Post-1989 Symbolic Geographies, SorinAntohi II Winners and Losers in the Great Transformation 6 Independence Reborn and the Demons of the Velvet Revolution, Adam Michnik 7 Between Idealism and Realism: Reflections on the Political Landscape of Postcommunism, Martin PalouS 8 Postsocialisms, Valerie Bunce 9 Fighting for the Public Sphere: Democratic Intellectuals under Postcommunism, Vladimir Tismaneanu HI Vulnerabilities of the New Democracies 10 Privatization as Transforming Persons, Katherine Verdery 11 Gendering Postsocialism: Reproduction as Politics in East Central Europe, Gail Kligman and Susan Gal 12 The Morals of Transition: Decline of Public Interest and Runaway Reforms in Eastern Europe, Kazimierz Z. Poznanski 13 Counterrevolution, Istvan Rev 14 The Handshake Tradition: A Decade of Consensus Politics Bears Liberal Fruit in Hungary—But What Next?, Miklos Haraszti 15 Politics and Freedom, Ivan Vejvoda IV The New Europe: Prospects for Cooperation and Conflict 16 Electocracies and the Hobbesian Fishbowl of Postcommunist Politics, Karen Dawisha 17 The Europe Agreements and Transition: Unique Returns from Integrating into the European Union, Bartlomiej Kaminski 18 Nationalism in Postcommunist Russia: From Resignation to Anger, Ilya Prize! 19 Chinese Bridges to Postsocialist Europe, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 20 Mickiewicz and the Question of Sacred Territory,Irena Grudzinska Gross V Past, Present, Future 21 Conclusions, Timothy Garton Ash Contributors Name Index