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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
Canadian-American Slavic Studies – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1996
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