中东欧国家正处于一个十字路口。现实社会主义的旧体制已经不起作用,而新的自由市场经济体制尚未形成。1991年,有以下几个情况使这一地区和其它地区截然不同:第一,深刻的政治、社会和经济改革在继续,这导致了现实社会主义的崩溃,并以不同发展阶段的新机制取而代之,走向民主和市场经济是大势所趋;第二,所有的中东欧国家都为战后以来前 Central and Eastern European countries are at a crossroads. The old system of realistic socialism has become ineffective, while the new free market economy has not yet been formed. In 1991, this area differed from the rest of the world in several ways: first, profound political, social and economic reforms continued, leading to the collapse of real socialism and replacing it with new mechanisms at different stages of development , The trend toward democracy and market economy is the general trend; secondly, all the Central and Eastern European countries have been