We the people
Titel: | We the people : the revolution of '89 ; witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin & Prague / Timothy Garton Ash |
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Verfasser: | |
Ausgabe: | [Nachdr.], publ. with a postscript |
Veröffentlicht: | London [u.a.] : Penguin Books, 1999 |
Umfang: | 168 S. |
Format: | Buch |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
History, Politics |
ISBN: | 0140283919 |
Lokale Klassifikation: | 31 7 Ua ; 31 7 Q ; 36 8 W 1 ; 54 8 B 1 ; 23 8 P 301 |
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On 4 June 1989 the Communist regime in Warsaw collapsed as Solidarity won the election, 12 days later Imre Nagy was buried in Budapest, 31 years after his execution. The Berlin Wall came down and in Prague, Vaclav Havel masterminded the Velvet Revolution. The author was witness to all these events.