Victims and outsiders : Eastern Europe before communism -- Children in the fog : from people's democracies to "developed socialism" -- From thaw to freeze : Eastern Europe under "real socialism" -- A glorious resurrection : the rise of civil society -- The ethos of civil society -- The triumph of the powerless : origins and dynamics of the East European upheaval -- The birth pangs of democracy -- Fears, phobias, frustrations : Eastern Europe between ethnocracy and democracy.