This paper examines how the past ten
years have seen great changes in the formerly
communist countries of Eastern Europe and how bound together for years under the Soviet yoke, these
nations have now embarked upon their own individual paths as sovereign states. In particular it looks at Russia, Poland, and Hungary and how all three once shared a common form of
government and a single social system. It analyzes how these three distinct nations were put together into the crucible of the Communist State and how each have emerged re-cast in a different manner. Russia, Poland and Hungary seek their own futures in the contemporary world.