Editors' note

Toward a rational grasp of irrationality

some gaps in social and economic theory

Arthur J. Vidich

5-28

History and sociology

some unresolved epistemological issues

Stanford M. Lyman

29-55

Forgotten predecessors

the Russian conservative historians of the French revolution

Dmitry Shlapentokh

57-85

The French revolution in the intellectual and political context of the last years of the Soviet regime

Dmitry Shlapentokh

87-112

The mirror of the hemispheric past

the United States and Latin America

José L. Valdés-Ugalde

113-122

Hungarians and Germans

a literary Hassliebe

Ivan Sanders

123-132

Mass privatization in Poland

processes, problems and prospects

Christine Rider, Edward K. Zajicek

133-148

Nations of the former Yugoslavia

consequences of economic breakdown

Adamovich

149-167

Letter to the editors