Radical social changes in sport in Eastern Europe are a result of a break-up of the social and economic system, defined as real socialism. However, there are also autonomical origins for such changes, particularly economic incapacity, conceptional and ideological inadequacy, organizational and institutional disfunctionality, as well as inefficiency of the sport's managing elite. An attempt of an analysis and interpretation of these four problem areas was therefore made in this article.
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