The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe : from communism to pluralism /

The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe : from communism to pluralism /

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Imprint:Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Description:296 p. ; 24 cm
Language:English
Subject:
Politics and government
Post-communism.
Revolutions.
Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern -- Congresses.
Revolutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Revolutions -- Europe, Central -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Europe, Central -- Politics and government -- 1989- -- Congresses.
Europe, Central.
Europe, Eastern.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9281558
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:Ninteen eighty nine revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
Other authors / contributors:McDermott, Kevin, 1957-
Stibbe, Matthew.
British Academy.
ISBN:0719085276
9780719085277
Notes:"Konec vla̕dy kedne strany" -- from cover.
Many of the contributions to this volume were drawn from a conference at Sheffield Hallam University in September 2009, which was sponsored by the British Academy.
Summary:"This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the 'Gorbachev phenomenon', the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, and the competing academic, cultural and ideological perceptions of the year 1989 as communism gave way to post-communist pluralism in the 1990s and beyond. Concluding that the contentious term 'revolution' is indeed apt for the momentous developments in eastern Europe in 1989, this book will be essential reading for undergraduates, postgraduates and specialists alike."--Publisher's description.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations and glossary of terms
  • Timeline: Eastern Europe, 1945-91
  • Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91
  • East European communist parties and their post-communist successors
  • 1. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes
  • Part I. The historical longue durée
  • 2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective
  • Part II. The 'Gorbachev factor'
  • 3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions
  • 4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic
  • Part III. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives
  • 5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution?
  • 6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest
  • 7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s
  • 8. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective
  • 9. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution
  • 10. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case
  • Part IV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath
  • 11. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR
  • 12. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland
  • 13. From the 'thirst for change' and 'hunger for truth' to a 'revolution that hardly happened': public protests and reconstructions of the past in Bulgaria in the 1990s
  • 14. Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy
  • Select bibliography
  • Index
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