Modern revolution : social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China /

Modern revolution : social change and cultural continuity in Czechoslovakia and China /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Brook, Daniel Charles.
Imprint:	Lanham : University Press of America, c2005.
Description:	x, 230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Tiananmen Square Incident (China : -- 1989) Velvet Revolution (Czechoslovakia : -- 1989) Revolutions -- Czechoslovakia. Revolutions -- China. Revolutions. Czechoslovakia -- History -- Velvet Revolution, 1989. China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989. China. Czechoslovakia. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5787347

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ISBN:	0761831924 (cloth) 0761831932 (pbk.)
Notes:	A revision of the author's thesis--University of California, Davis. Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-230).

Table of Contents:

I. Introduction : modern revolution in perspective
II. Methodology, etiology, and dynamics
III. Histories of democracy
IV. The power of human rights
V. The quiddity of the economy
VI. The Gorbachev phenomenon
VII. Mass media, meaning, and mobilization
VII. The role of relative deprivation
IX. Acquiescence of the military
X. Revolutionary rehearsal and the case(s) of China
XI. Conclusion : looking back and looking forward
App. 1. Selected chronology of event-processes
App. 2. Charter 77 declaration
App. 3. Hunger strike announcement.