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.
| ISBN: | 9780880334068 |
| Publication date: | 8th April 1999 |
| Author: | Helena Flam |
| Publisher: | East European Monographs |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 283 pages |
| Series: | East European Monographs |
| Genres: |
European history Political science and theory Science: general issues |