Democracy for Cuba

Uncaptive Minds is a quarterly journal of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe devoted to providing information and analysis on the democratic movements in Eastern Europe (from East Germany to eastern Siberia) that brought an end to communism and fought to bring about a democratic transition in their countries. It published 35 issues from 1988-97, featuring the leading activists, thinkers, and political figures from the opposition, human rights, and democracy movements.

For the first time, all 35 issues of Uncaptive Minds are being made available in their entirety in digital format (in process). Unfortunately, the full volumes are only in English. However, many articles have been  translated into Spanish for use on the DemocracyforCuba.org website in the Los Caminos and Democracy Pamphlets.

Uncaptive Minds is a unique journal focusing on that period in Eastern Europe. If you want to find out about the movements for democracy — and the movements against dictatorship — in the region, Uncaptive Minds was the only journal focused on the region that featured those from the region. It was an open forum for people within the region who otherwise had people outside the region writing about them, lecturing to them, and speaking on their behalf without ever speaking to them or really understanding their conditions. Uncaptive Minds let the democrats speak for themselves and the result is a remarkable collection of articles and interviews unparalleled in the field of democracy studies.

It was not possible to break down the issues into individual articles, and the full issues were too large to post, so each of the issues are presented in three parts. Each of the parts repeats the Table of Contents to assist the reader in finding articles in each section. The files are in a large format to make it easier to read, but it may require the user to choose a different % size page (50 percent, 75 percent, 100 percent or higher) for optimum reading. The files are digitally scanned — and thus quite large — so the files may take awhile to download even on a newer computer. If the computer is older, it may take a few minutes. But DemocracyforCuba.org considers the time is well spent.

Volume 1, Number 1
     Part 1 Hungary
     Part 2 Czechoslovakia
     Part 3 Poland

Volume 1, Number 2
     Part 1 Poland
     Part 2 Romania, Czechoslovakia 
     Part 3 Hungary, Estonia, Soviet Union 

Volume 1, Number 3
     Part 1 Czechoslovakia
     Part 2 Ukraine, Baltic Republics
     Part 3 Poland, Hungary

     Part 1 Special Features, Poland

     Part 2 Krakow International Humand Rights Conference

     Part 3 Czechoslovakia, Armenia

Volume 3, Number 1
     Part 1 Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Baltic Republics
     Part 2 Soviet Union, Romania
     Part 3 Hungary, Poland
    
Volume 3, Number 2
     Part 1 Poland, Czechoslovakia
     Part 2 Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria
     Part 3 Albania, Georgia, Soviet Union

Volume 3, Number 3
     Part 1 Romania, Hungary
     Part 2 Czechoslovakia, Poland
     Part 3 Lithuania, Soviet Union

Volume 3, Number 4
     Part 1 Eastern Europe, Poland, Romania
     Part 2 Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria 
     Part 3 Soviet Union, Byelorussia, Estonia

Volume 3, Number 5
     Part 1 Russia, Tartastan, Azerbaijan
     Part 2 Ukraine, Mongolia, Czechoslovakia
     Part 3 Poland 

     Part 1 Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Yugoslavia

     Part 2 Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia

     Part 3 Poland

Volume 4, Number 2
     Part 1 Common Problems, Lithuania, Hungary
     Part 2 Russia, Ukraine, Estonia, Czechoslovakia
     Part 3 Poland, Bulgaria, Romania

Volume 4, Number 3
     Part 1 Common Problems, Soviet Union, Byelorussia, Ukraine
     Part 2 Lithuania, Russia, Central Asia, Czechoslovakia 
     Part 3 Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia 

Volume 4, Number 4
    Part 1 Estonai, Latvia, Lithuania
    Part 2 Czechoslovakia, Georgia, Tajikistan
    Part 3 Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Romania

Volume 5, Number 1
     Part 1 Gypses, Rusia, Georgia
     Part 2 Ukraine, Czechoslovakia
     Part 3 Poland, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Hungary  

Volume 5, Number 2
     Part 1 Yugoslavia 
     Part 2 Rusia, Byelorussia
     Part 3 Hungary, Poland
     Part 4 Germany, Czechoslovakia

Volume 5, Number 3
     Part 1 Lithuania, Latvia, Russia
     Part 2 Crimea, Moldova, Kosovo
     Part 3 Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Poland

Volume 6, Number 1
     Part 1 Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary
     Part 2 Czech & Slovak Republics
     Part 3 Latvia, Russia, Georgia

Volume 6, Number 2
     Part 1 Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland
     Part 2 Romania, Slovakia
     Part 3 Slovenia, Croatia
     Part 4 Serbia, Romania, The Czech Republic, Media Laws

Volume 6, Number 3
     Part 1 Tajikistan, The Baltic Countries, Estonia
     Part 2 Slovenia, Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia
     Part 3 Hungary, Poland, Byelorussia, Slovakia, Ukraine

Volume 7, Number 1
     Part 1 Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo
     Part 2 Former Yugoslavia, Poland, Hungary
     Part 3 The Caucasus, Georgia, Russia, Moldavia

Volume 7, Number 2
     Part 1 Lithuania 
     Part 2 Romania, Hungary, Ukraine, Russia
     Part 3 Estonia, Crimea
     Part 4 Tajikistan

Volume 7, Number 3
     Part 1 Bosnia, Croatia 
     Part 2 Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Estonia, Czech Republic
     Part 3 Poland, romania, Russia, Ukraine

Volume 8, Number 1
     Part 1 Chechnya, Russia
     Part 2 Azerbaijan, Bosnia
     Part 3 Macedonia 
     Part 4 Romania, Hungary, Slovakia

Volume 8, Number 2
     Part 1 The Continuing Crisis, Chechnya, Georgia
     Part 2 Crimea
     Part 3 Yugoslavia, Croatia
     Part 4 Bulgaria, Poland, Russia

Volume 8, Numbers 3-4
     Part 1 Bosnia
     Part 2 Croatia, Kosovo
     Part 3 Montenegro
     Part 4 Serbia

Volume 9, Numbers 1-2
     Part 1 Bulgaria, Lithuania
     Part 2 Romania, Czech Republic
     Part 3 Bosnia & Hecegovina, Yugoslavia
     Part 4 The Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Armenia
     Part 5 Byelorussia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Russia

Volume 9, Numbers 3-4
     Part 1 The Rise of Nationalism in the Former Soviet Union: Theme I, Theme II
     Part 2 (cont.) Theme III, Theme IV, Theme V
     Part 3 (cont.) Theme VI, Theme VII 
     Part 4 The Rise of Nationalism in Central & E. Europe: Theme I, Theme II, Theme III
     Part 5 (cont.) Theme IV, Theme V, Theme VI