Czechoslovakia’s “Velvet Revolution”

Sharon L. Wolchik is the coeditor of Women, State, and Party in Eastern Europe (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1985), and Foreign and Domestic Policies in Eastern Europe in the 1980’s (London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983). She traveled in Czechoslovakia in March and June, 1990, to interview activists and scholars and to observe the elections; she is currently working on a study of mass-elite relations in the transition to democracy in Czechoslovakia.