Central and Eastern Europe: The Opening Curtain?

A collection of workshop articles by The East-West Forum, located in Washington, D.C., and New York, a research and policy analysis organization sponsored by the Samuel Bronfman Foundation. The Forum aims to build a bridge between scholarship and policymaking. This volume holds the examination of perestroika against the history of the communist countries of Europe.

William E. Griffith is Ford Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author and editor of many books and articles on Europe and the Communist world; his most recent book is Superpowers and Regional Tensions: The USSR, The United States, and Europe (1981). He is an expert in Communist and international affairs.