It is easy to wax euphoric over the events that swept Eastern Europe

in 1989. The images-flashed
across television screens or played
upon the pages of newspapers and

magazines-still remain fresh in memory: In Hungary, the funeral and re- burial of Imre Nagy, leader of the 1956 Revolution; in East Germany, the joyous flood of people streaming through the Ber- lin Wall, that symbol of division and Cold War; in Poland, the beaming face of Lech Walesa, his Solidarity trade union relegalized; in...