Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
This chapter is concerned with the swift and unexpected political and social breaks that occurred at the end of the eighties in Eastern and Central Europe and which we have been experiencing as necessary, inevitable, foreseen but delayed. A simultaneous, particularly media-created analysis, has characterized them as a “peaceful revolution,” but at least two questions arise.
* Based on the results of a longitudinal sociological survey, “Slovene Public Opinion Survey” (from 1968 to 1991; representative sample in Slovenia, N=2000), Faculty of Sociology, Political Science and Journalism, University in Ljubljana.Google Scholar