End of an Era Turmoil in USSR and Eastern Europe

and Eastern Europe Achin Vanaik Identifying political theory, both Marxist and non-Marxist, east-west relations and the future of socialism as areas that merit investigation in the context of the sweeping changes in eastern Europe, this paper argues that the resurgence of political democracy there will deprive capitalism of one of its most powerful negative sources of stability, by removing models of actually existing socialism.one of the factors in diluting working class radicalism in the west.