Preface
Contributors
PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Role of Communication in Engineering Political, Economic, and Social Institutions
Sarah S. King and Donald P. Cushman
PART II. NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNICATION AND CHANGE
2. The Rhetoric of Circumstance: The Case of Poland, 1980-1990
Rowland Baughman and Andrjez Kozminski
3. Yugoslavia: Ethnic Dramas Without Denouement
Branislav Kovacic and Bozidar Travica
4. Communication and Power: A Short History of the Armenian National Movement
Lucig H. Danielian
5. Communication in the Failed Student Movement
Guo-Ping Fei and Xu Yu
PART III. IMPLICATIONS FOR COMMUNICATION AND RHETORIC
6. The Role of Mass Communication Processes in Producing Upheavals in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China
Robert E. Sanders
7. The Communication of Cultural Memory and the Reconstitution of Society
Gerard A. Hauser
8. Visions of Order in Poland, Yugoslavia, Armenia, and China
Donald P. Cushman and Sarah S. King