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Gale Stokes. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. x, 319 pp. $23.95 Cdn. paper. Distributed in Canada by Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ontario.

Gale Stokes. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York... G a l e Stokes. T h e Walls C a m e Tumbling D o w n : The Collapse o f C o m m u n i s m in Eastern Europe. N e w York a n d O x f o r d : O x f o r d University Press, 1993. x, 3 1 9 pp. $ 2 3 . 9 5 Cdn. p a p e r . Distributed in C a n a d a b y O x f o r d University Press, D o n Mills, O n t a r i o . Philosophy, went a hoary East European joke, is like looking in a dark room for a black box; Marxist philosophy is like looking in a dark room for a black box that isn't there; Marxist- Leninist philosophy is like looking in a dark room for a black box that isn't there and shouting: "Eureka! i found it!" The watershed year 1989-90 conspicuously revealed the bankruptcy of the East European Communist systems fashioned from such an ideology, when their subjects ignominiously cast them off onto what Marx himself had called the "ash-heap of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian-American Slavic Studies Brill

Gale Stokes. The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. x, 319 pp. $23.95 Cdn. paper. Distributed in Canada by Oxford University Press, Don Mills, Ontario.

Canadian-American Slavic Studies , Volume 30 (2-4): 459 – Jan 1, 1996

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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0090-8290
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10.1163/221023996X01410
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G a l e Stokes. T h e Walls C a m e Tumbling D o w n : The Collapse o f C o m m u n i s m in Eastern Europe. N e w York a n d O x f o r d : O x f o r d University Press, 1993. x, 3 1 9 pp. $ 2 3 . 9 5 Cdn. p a p e r . Distributed in C a n a d a b y O x f o r d University Press, D o n Mills, O n t a r i o . Philosophy, went a hoary East European joke, is like looking in a dark room for a black box; Marxist philosophy is like looking in a dark room for a black box that isn't there; Marxist- Leninist philosophy is like looking in a dark room for a black box that isn't there and shouting: "Eureka! i found it!" The watershed year 1989-90 conspicuously revealed the bankruptcy of the East European Communist systems fashioned from such an ideology, when their subjects ignominiously cast them off onto what Marx himself had called the "ash-heap of

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