Janina FRENTZEL-ZAGÓRSKA: Introduction. PART I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES. Zygmunt BAUMAN: A Post-modern Revolution? Leslie HOLMES: On Communism, Post-communism, Modernity and Post-modernity. Leszek NOWAK: The Totalitarian Approach and the History of Socialism. Jan PAKULSKI: East European Revolutions and 'Legitimacy Crisis'. PART II. THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD. Adam CZARNOTA and Martin KRYGIER: From State to Legal Traditions? Prospects for the Rule of Law after Communism. Maté SZABÓ: Social Protest in a Post-communist Democracy: The Taxi Drivers' Demonstration in Hungary. Zygmunt BAUMAN: Dismantling a Patronage State. Edmund MOKRZYCKI: Between Reform and Revolution: Eastern Europe Two Years after the Fall of Communism. Janina FRENTZEL-ZAGÓRSKA: The Road to a Democratic Political System in Post-communist Eastern Europe. PART III. THE CASE OF YUGOSLAVIA. Robert F. MILLER: Yugoslavia: The End of the Experiment.