Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-195) and index.

1. Eastern Europe and Its Sociology / Mike Forrest Keen and Janusz Mucha -- 2. The Metamorphoses of Russian Sociology / Gennady S. Batygin and Inna F. Deviatko -- 3. Dialectics of Systemic Constraint and Academic Freedom: Polish Sociology Under Socialist Regime / Wladyslaw Kwasniewicz -- 4. The Sociology of Reformist Socialism: The Hungarian Model / Attila Becskehazi and Tibor Kuczi -- 5. Sociology as Promise and Reality: The Bulgarian Experience / Nikolai Genov -- 6. Continuity and Discontinuity in Romanian Sociology / Stefan Costea -- 7. Ups and Downs in Czech Sociology / Eduard Urbanek -- 8. Sociology in Slovakia: Fiction or Reality / Jan Pasiak and Ladislaw Machacek -- 9. East German Sociology: Between the Production of Weltanschauung, Ideological Adaptation, and Empirical Social Research / Dagmar Simon and Vera Sparschuh -- 10. The Development of Sociology as a Contested Science in Post-World War II Yugoslavia / Sergej Flere -- 11. Modern Slovenian Sociology / Maca Jogan.

12. Sociology as a Mirror of Croatian Society / Josip Obradovic -- 13. Sociology of Science as the Science of Sociology in Ukraine / Viacheslav Kudin -- 14. Three Decades of Sociology in Latvia / Ilze Trapenciere, Maija Ashmane and Janina Krutskih -- 15. Main Features in the Development of Lithuanian Sociology / Vladas Gaidys and Anele Vosyliute -- 16. Estonian Sociology: The Emergence of an Empirical Tradition / Ellu Saar, Mikk Titma and Paul Kenkmann -- 17. Sociological Theories of Socialist Society / Bronislaw Misztal.