Vladimir Tismaneanu

First published in 1988, The Crisis of Marxist Ideology in Eastern Europe records the emergence of a dissident counterculture rejecting the socialist system. The only hope for the anti-totalitarian intellectuals of Eastern Europe is to oppose the regimes with non-Marxist ideas.

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. An Autopsy of Stalinism 2. Soviet Ideology and Eastern Europe 3. The Decay of Stalinism 4. The Search for Renewal 5. Poverty of Utopia 6. Reconstruction or Disintegration 7. From Criticism to Apostasy 8. Peace, Human Rights, Dissent 9. Neo-Stalinism and Reform Communism Epilogue Index