Crossing the Valley of Tears in East European Reform

Author(s): JEFFREY D. SACHS
Source: Challenge, Vol. 34, No. 5 (SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1991), pp. 26-31, 34 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd.
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40721281

The East envisions a return to the mainstream of European democratic and capitalist life. But it will take political leadership and social consensus to survive the lean years of transition. Now the West must show it wants the East to ' 'return.'