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A review of the book "Smuggled," by Christina Shea is presented.

The article reviews the book "East European Communities: The Struggle for Balance in Turbulent Times," by David A. Kideckel, Gerald W. Creed, Ildico Vasary, Andrzej Halasiewicz, Andrzej Kaleta, Dennis Vnenchak, Joachim Singleman, Steve Samson and Jacek Kurczewski.

This article analyses the political and social situation in Russia after the policy of glasnost and perestroika. Events of the past few years in the former Soviet Union, and its Central and Eastern European spheres of influence, once again highlight a central limitation of the social sciences, the power of prediction with reasonable precision. When scholars have finished gnawing on the bones of the former grandeur of the Soviet Union, one will begin to learn more of what was a complex and many sided upheaval. The rigorously scientific social post-mortem remains social science's most useful tool, just as it was in the pioneer days of medical science, and one should refrain from the dismissive invocation that all this is merely hindsight. The fact is, until one has hindsight one will have no foresight key roles. The 1991 paperback edition, with a hurried apologetic preface trying to explain why some important post-totalitarians had already been sidelined by events, obviously came out prior to the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev, but notes the end of Soviet control of its former satellites and carefully anticipates the demise of the Soviet Union itself.

Reviews the book "The Slavs of the War Zone," by W.F. Bailey.

Reviews the book "Vampirettes, Wretches, and Amazons: Western Representations of East European Women," edited by Valentina Glajar and Domnica Radulescu.

Reviews the book "Molvania: a land untouched by modern dentistry," by Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner and Rob Sitch.

Reviews the book "Biographical Research in Eastern Europe: Altered Lives and Broker Biographies," edited by Robin Humphery, Robert Miller and Elena Zdravomyslova.

A review of the book "Looking for Przybylski," by K. C. Frederick is presented.

Reviews the book "The Human Geography of Eastern Europe," by David Turnock.

Reviews the book 'Coming to America: Immigrants From Eastern Europe,' by Shirley Blumenthal.