Women's studies programs are growing in former Communist countries of Eastern Europe. Two graduate programs in gender studies now exist in Poland and Hungary. Non-academic centers also provide services to women. Programs that met with strong resistance in the United States in the 1970s are greeted here with only mild reluctance. Programs provide…

The European Journalism Network, a United States-based nonprofit organization, methodically provides seed money and technical assistance to start newspapers produced by and for students in Eastern Europe and several former Soviet republics. The publications' impact is disproportionate to their size and frequency because they are unique in that…