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Author Weigel, George

Title The Final Revolution : the Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism
Published New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, Sept. 2003

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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: The Final Revolution; ONE: Not by Politics Alone: Unwrapping the Revolution of 1989; TWO: Calling Good and Evil by Name: The Communist Lie Confronted; THREE: Catholics and Commissars: 1917-1978; FOUR: The Wojtyta Difference; FIVE: Poland: Igniting the Revolution; Photographs; SIX: Czechoslovakia: A Church Reborn in Resistance; SEVEN: No Monopolies on Virtue: Christian Conviction and the Democratic Prospect; Notes; Index
Summary Annotation. The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance together atop the Berlin Wall? Why did peoplewho had once seemed resigned to their fate suddenly take their future into their own hands? Some analysts have explained the Revolution in economic terms, arguing that the Warsaw Pact countries could no longer compete with the West. But as George Weigel argues in this thought-provoking volume, people don't put their lives, and their children's futures, in harm's way simply for better cars, refrigerators, and TVs. Something else--something more--had to happen behind the iron curtain before the Wall came tumbling down. In The Final Revolution, Weigel argues that that "something" was a revolution of conscience. The human turn to the good, to the truly human, and, ultimately, to God, was the key to the political Revolution of 1989. Weigel provides an in-depth exploration of how the Catholic Church shaped themoral revolution inside the political revolution. Drawing on extensive interviews with key leaders of the human rights and resistance movements, he opens a unique window into the soul of the Revolution and into the hearts and minds of those who shaped this stirring vindication of the human spirit. Weigel also examines the central role played by Pope John Paul II in confronting what Vaclav Havel called communism's "culture of the lie," and he suggests what the future role of the Church might be in consolidating democracy in the countries of the old Warsaw Pact. The "final revolution" is not the end of history, Weigel concludes. It is the human quest for a freedom that truly satisfies the deepest yearnings of the human heart. The Final Revolution illustrates how that quest changed the face of the twentieth century and redefined world politics in theyear of miracles, 1989
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-246) and index
Audience Trade Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Notes English
Subject Communism and Christianity -- Catholic Church.
Communism and Christianity -- Europe, Eastern
Revolutions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Communism and Christianity
Communism and Christianity -- Catholic Church
Politics and government
Revolutions -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045776
Subject Eastern Europe
Form Electronic book
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