Jul 25,2014 Special Forum Introduction to Special Forum Economists, political scientists, and sociologists greeted developments at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s with acclamation that their theoretical views were proven correct and those of marginalized social scientists and area specialists were now disposable. Communism in all its assaults on freedom was passe, as were Sovietologists and those who had […] Editorial Staff contradictory transitional thinking , elite continuity , historical memories , symbolic pretexts