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AFTER THIRTY YEARS AS A NATION, THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS A VIEW OF THE STATE OF EAST GERMANY AND ARGUES THAT DESPITE POLITICAL CONSOLIDATION, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THE NORMALIZATION OF ITS INTERNATIONAL STATUS, THE GDR REMAINS WITHOUT A DISTINCTIVE NATIONAL BASE OF ITS OWN. THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES INTER-GERMAN DETENTE AND ITS EFFECTS.

In this era of profound political and economic transformations in many parts of the world, considerable interest attaches to the question of what the postcommunist societies of Eastern Europe might learn from examples of societal transformation elsewhere, particularly in Latin America. This paper was adapted from a panel discussion presented on November 22, 1991, at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, in Miami, Fla

"... we... huddle here on the western margin of the [Soviet] empire and on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain, with a cautious strategy of limited self-preservation and a troubled mind, because we don't want to identify with the East and we can't identify with the West." György Konrád, Antipolitics "With no precise borders with no Center or rather with several centers, `Central Europe' looks today more and more like the dragon of Alca in the second book of Anatole France's Penguin Island to which the Symbolist movement was compared: nobody who claimed to have seen it could say what it looked like." Danilo Kiš, "Variations on the Theme of Central Europe"