This text draws on archival data and interviews conducted with communists, dissidents and by-standers in Poland and East Germany. Helena Flam grounds the interviews in knowledge of the Soviet systems which evolved in contrasting ways in the two countries. She concludes by placing the research results in a wider context of east European transitions to democracy and post-transition effects, and provides comparative data on repression.
- ISBN10 0880334061
- ISBN13 9780880334068
- Publish Date 11 March 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint East European Monographs
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 306
- Language English