Foreign and Domestic Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s [electronic resource] : Trends and Prospects

1980s ## Contents Like many books of scholarly interest these days, the present volume grew out of a conference. Under the auspices of the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies, a group of some thirty specialists gathered at the George Washington University on 4 and 5 April 1980 to participate in discussions on the theme of "Eastern Europe in the 1980s: Trends and Prospects." Although the conference participants, particularly those who presented the papers which formed the basis of the chapters in this book, were for the most part professional scholars, the audience was by no means limited to academicians. A considerable part of the funding for the conference was provided by the US Department of State, and representatives of that institution as well as of other US government agencies also participated actively in the conference sessions. Unfortunately, space does not permit us to mention by name all those who helped make the conference a success and who, in one way or another, contributed to the preparation of this volume. We owe special thanks, however, to three individuals without whose encouragement and generosity neither the conference itself nor this book would ever have seen the light of day: Gaston J. Sigur, Director of the Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies at George Washington; Andrew Gyorgy, our respected colleague and fellow member of the Institute; and Eric Willenz of the Division of Intelligence and Research of the State Department. Our editor at Macmillan, Mr T. M. Farmiloe, deserves particularly warm thanks for his enormous patience and skill in piloting this project to publication. We would also like to express our gratitude to Dorothy Wedge and Sheila Murphy for their enormous help in organizing the conference and typing the final drafts of the manuscripts, and to Suzanne Stephenson, Nathaniel Richmond and Kelly Eaton for invaluable editorial assistance. We wish also to thank Brevis Press for helping us to prepare this volume for publication. No list of debts accumulated by the editors of a book of this kind would be complete without a word of gratitude for our authors. All of them graciously responded to our request that the original confer-ence papers be revised in 1981 and 1982; in some cases, the papers were completely rewritten for this volume to reflect rapidly changing events in Eastern Europe (particularly in Poland). We consider ourselves fortunate to have worked with such a distinguished and personable group of scholars. In closing, we wish to single out the following conference participants for their valued contribution: R. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-23 Front Matter....Pages 25-25 International—national Linkages and Political Processes in Yugoslavia....Pages 27-46 Romanian Foreign Policy in the 1980s: Domestic—foreign Policy Linkages....Pages 47-80 External Influences on Regime Stability in the GDR: a Linkage Analysis....Pages 81-108 Front Matter....Pages 109-109 The Scientific—Technological Revolution and the Role of Specialist Elites in Policy-making in Czechoslovakia....Pages 111-132 Polish Journalists in the 1980s....Pages 133-159 Intellectuals and their Discontent in Hungary: Class Power or Marginality?....Pages 160-189 Front Matter....Pages 191-191 Comecon: the Recent Past and Perspectives for the 1980s....Pages 193-212 The Warsaw Pact....Pages 213-233 Eastern Europe and the Third World: The Expanding Relationship....Pages 234-259 Back Matter....Pages 260-265