Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Developments in Eastern Europe, June 1989
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Revolution In East-central Europe
Author: David S MasonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000310035
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
The year 1989 marked a turning point in world history, a watershed year of unprecedented drama and political significance. No matter how one looks at those events–as the fall of communism, the democratization of Eastern Europe, or the end of the cold war–it is important to understand how the world travelled the distance of time, space, and ideology to arrive at the Berlin Wall and tear it down. David Mason provides that understanding in a concise synthesis of history, politics, economics, sociology, literature, philosophy, and popular, as well as traditional, culture. He shows how all these elements combined to yield the year that effectively closed the twentieth century–and promised to launch the new century on a hopeful note. Starting with Poland's elections in June 1989, the countries of then-communist Eastern Europe one by one revolutionized their governments and their polities; Hungary opened its borders to the West, East Germany rushed through, Czechoslovakia elected Vaclav Havel president, Bulgaria changed both party and leadership, and Romania executed Ceausescu. Although Gorbachev enabled many of these changes, he did not cause them. The illumination of the complex symbiosis between dynamics in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union is one of the greatest contributions this book makes. With undercurrents emphasizing the power of ideas, the spirit of youth, and the multifaceted force of culture and ethnicity, Mason takes the reader far beyond the events of change and into their impetus and outcomes. He applies theories of social movements, democratization, and economic transition with an even hand, showing the interaction of their effects not only regionally but worldwide. The concluding chapter puts the revolutions in Eastern Europe into international perspective and highlights their impact on East-West relations, security alliances, and economic integration. Mason discusses the European Community, the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Third World in relation to the new East-Central European configuration. Using delightful and provocative cartoons from Eastern European and Soviet presses, interesting photos, valuable tables of data, and illuminating figures, Mason emphasizes important points about the role of nationalism, ethnicity, public opinion, and harsh economic reality in the revolutionary process.
The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Kevin McDermottPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526103478
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
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.
Reflections on 1989 in Eastern Europe
Author: Terry CoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317980395
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
This book presents a selection of recent research on the events and developments of 1989 in Eastern Europe. It offers a mix of detailed examinations of the events of 1989 in Eastern Europe, thoughtful and considered appraisals of developments, and ‘middle-range’ theoretical discussions of patterns of cause and effect. The authors range in their approaches from detailed examinations of government and ruling-party papers from the archives, some of it originally labelled top secret, to personal observations and oral history based on interviews with participants, to analysis of survey data and official statistics. In their chosen focus the essays range from explorations of the emerging crisis in the communist regimes that led to the events of 1989, reflections and insights into the events and changing mood during 1989 itself, and examinations of some of the consequences and legacies of 1989. This book was published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
Eastern Europe in Revolution
Author: Ivo BanacPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150173332X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
In this book twelve outstanding authorities present their thoroughgoing assessments of the East European revolution of 1989—the definite collapse of communism as an ideology, a political movement, and a system of power in eight countries. All but two of the contributors focus on the revolution in an individual region or country—Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania—and each of them addresses the theme of regime transition. In Eastern Europe, of course, the transition from communism to.... has been as complex and varied as the political geography of the notorious "fracture zone" itself, and individual authors thus concentrate on different sets of problems; they tell different kinds of stories. Pointing to the enormous difficulties of systematic transformation, they measure the dangers of nationality conflict and the potential for new authoritarianism. Ivo Banac has assembled a cast with impressive credentials. Without imposing an artificial unity on a chaotic subject, their book maps out the events of 1989-90 and sets the background for figuring out where the region may be headed.
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe, 1989
Author: Richard Alexander SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Revolution 1989
Author: Victor SebestyenPublisher:
ISBN: 9780753827093
Category : Europe, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Documents the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslvakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and the transition of each to independent states, drawing on interviews and newly uncovered archival material to offer insight into 1989's rapid changes and the USSR's minimal resistance.
Development in Europe, October 1989
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe, Eastern
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Developments in Europe, October 1989
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Developments in Europe, October 1989
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle EastPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description