The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe
| Titel: | The 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe : from communism to pluralism / ed. by Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013 |
| Umfang: | XX, 296 Seiten |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780719085277 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Notes on contributors
- p. vii
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- List of abbreviations and glossary of terms
- p. xi
- Timeline: Eastern Europe, 1945-91
- p. xiv
- Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91
- p. xvii
- East European communist parties and their post-communist successors
- p. xix
- 1
- The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes
- p. 1
- Part I
- The historical longue durée
- 2
- Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective
- p. 33
- Part II
- The 'Gorbachev factor'
- 3
- The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions
- p. 55
- 4
- 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic
- p. 73
- Part III
- The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives
- 5
- The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution?
- p. 95
- 6
- The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest
- p. 113
- 7
- Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s
- p. 136
- 8
- The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective
- p. 154
- 9
- Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution
- p. 172
- 10
- A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case
- p. 192
- 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
- p. 213
- 12
- Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland
- p. 235
- 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
- p. 253
- 14
- Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy
- p. 271
- Select bibliography
- p. 285
- Index
- p. 289
