Introducation. / Gwyn Prins.
Revolt in our time: the triumph of simplistic ideology. / John Kenneth Galbraith.
What the Hungarians saw first. / Elemer Hankiss.
The roots, branches and blossoms of Solidarnosc. / Janusz Ziolkowski.
Reflections on becoming an East German dissident, on losing the Wall and a country. / Jens Reich.
Czechoslovakia: the power and politics of humiliation. / Jan Urban.
Why Romania could not avoid bloodshed. / Jonathan Eyal.
The Russian sphinx: hope and despair. / Andrei A. Piontkowsky.
A British perspective and prospective. / James Eberle.
A comparative chronology of revolution, 1988-1990. / Sarah Humphrey.
