Glas­nost! Per­e­stroi­ka! Sol­i­dar­i­ty gov­erns Poland! The Hun­gar­i­an Com­mu­nist Par­ty dis­solves itself! These stun­ning polit­i­cal events will change the land­scape of inter­na­tion­al sci­ence as Sovi­et and East­ern Bloc sci­en­tists begin to inter­act more freely with their West­ern counterparts.