Beyond Glasnost: The Post-Totalitarian Mind

Jeffrey C. Goldfarb. University of Chicago Press, $23 (275pp) ISBN 978-0-226-30098-6

Goldfarb analyzes Eastern European literature's message and its impact on totalitarianism's conformity and subtle censorship. ``Readers who are able to hurdle his academic prose will gain a useful perspective on the impetus for revolution-from-below that found democratic expression in the Solidarity movement,'' said PW. (Dec.)

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