The author writes about the power struggle in the post-Ceausescu Romania, taking the actors of the political fighting one after the other, from the Iliescu group planning the coup against Ceausescu through the Romanian orthodox church to the army which is in key position. The article ends with guessing the chances of the Romanian political scene.

By giving a detailed history and the emergence of self-government in the Yugoslav society, the author tries to prove that Yugoslavia's crisis does not mean the denial of the idea of self-government. In the second part of the article, he analyses the possibility of the federation's disintegration and the differences and relations between the individual provinces' internal development.

The author, investigating the reasons of Polish political landslide in 1988-89, gives an account of the development of the main figures of political background in the 80-ies (i. e. those of PUWP, Solidarity, the Church, OPZZ)

The author compares the Polish and the Hungarian opposition movements which – despite the similarities of the economic conditions – differ in their sociological structure and political nature. While the Polish transformation was forced by a movement of social self-defence organised from below, here this process was initiated by groups of intellectuals from above and the prulalistic political interests did not rely on the self-organisin'g process that has taken place in society. The study directs attention to the sharp contradictions and dangers of the social vacuum that is behind the power struggle.