the European Union's denial of market access to East Euro- pean nations-were certain to push millions of disgruntled workers and pensioners to the left, he notes. But why did they turn to the ex-com-munist Left and not to the new social-demo- cratic parties that emerged from the anti-com- munist opposition?
A dispirited populace and a tenacious com- munist nomenklaturahelped to make the come- back possible, but the biggest factor, Karatnycky argues, was that "anti-commu- nists lost their moral...