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Question 1. Identify what exactly is the character of the ongoing changes in Eastern Europe?
Question 2. Is it a social revolution, spelling the end of socialism, and a reversal to a capitalist mode of production? Expound on your answer.
Question 3. Is it a political revolution ? an attempt to both break the monopoly of the communist party over the structures and distribution of power, and institute some form of pluralism?
Question 4. Is it a social movement for new norms in social behavior (e.g., greater respect for individual rights and freedom)?
Question 5. Are the advocates of reform counterrevolutionaries or progressives?
Question 6. Can the countries of "actually existing socialism" (referring to those where vanguard communists partly has led the socialist construction) undertake a successful restoration of "civil society," or a transition to "democratic socialism" or "socialism with human face"?
Question 7. Will the bureaucratic and authoritarian tendencies ascribed to the "Stalinist" parties continue even under the new pluralist leadership?