Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe After Communism Book

After the exuberance that marked the revolutions of 1989, the countries of Eastern Europe have faced the breathtakingly ambitious task of remaking their societies. Simultaneously they have sought to build liberal democracies based on market economics, while confronting reassertion's of long-suppressed claims for national independence. Taking up where his previous book Surge to Freedom ended. J.F.Brown's Hopes and Shadows analyzes the results of the first four years of Eastern Europe's separation from communist rule and the prospects for the future.