Finally those of us for whom developments in Eastern — or Central! — Europe are at least one of the keys to unlocking the question of a radical democratic, post-Marxist politics can now get between the same covers news from the three countries which — at however uneven a pace — are developing or (in Czechoslovakia especially) trying to preserve an autonomous civil society. What is more, the “news” is not just information and reprints of outrages or too lonesome struggles; the news comes also an analyses, sometimes as documents from within (Janos Kis on Yalta, Adam Michnik on the Polish elections, Vaclav Havel on the Peace Movement); and it comes too from without, by the editors of the East European Reporter and their collaborators.