| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 705 pages) |
| Series |
Internationale Geschichte = International history ; Band 2 |
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Internationale Geschichte (Vienna, Austria) ; Bd. 2.
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| Contents |
Revolutions -- gorbachev and the" new political thinking" -- poland 1989: the constrained revolution -- hungary 1989: renunciation of power and power-sharing -- the tiananmen square "incident" in china and the east central european revolutions -- the october revolution in east germany -- czechoslovakia in 1989: causes, results, and conceptual changes -- yugoslavia 1989: the revolutions that did (not) happen -- the end of communist rule in bulgaria: the crisis of legitimacy and political change -- the romanian revolution -- "one day we will win anyway": the "singing revolution" in the soviet baltic republics -- reactions -- the superpowers and 1989 in eastern europe -- the ussr and the revolutions of 1989-90: questions of causality -- us strategic planning in 1989-90 -- opposition movements and big politics in the reunification of germany -- the ussr and the reunification of germany, 1989-90 -- margaret thatcher and german unification revisited -- france, the east european revolutions and the reunification of germany -- italy, the east european revolutions, and the reunification of germany, 1989-92 -- italy, the east european revolutions, and the reunification of germany, 1989-92 -- austria and its neighbors in eastern europe, 1955-89 -- austria, the revolutions, and the unification of germany -- aftermath -- societal transformations in eastern europe after 1989 and theirpreconditions -- remembering revolutions: the public memory of 1989 in bulgaria -- the revolutions of 1989 and the "archival revolution" in the ussr -- nato enlargement in the beginning: an american perspective -- eu enlargement, 1989-2009 -- epochal changes, 1989-91 -- summary and chronology -- 1989: ambivalent revolutions with different backgrounds and consequences -- chronology of the political events in central, east and south europe, 1 august 1975-1 july 2013 |
| Summary |
"Only a few people foresaw the sudden and momentous events of 1989: within weeks the seemingly unshakable communist regimes of Eastern Europe were washed away and with them the postwar international order. This book gives an overview over the national revolutions and external reactions. It contains chapters on the revolutions in all major countries of the former communist bloc as well as on the responses of all major international players. The first part examines the revolutionary events - from above and from below - in Eastern Europe as well as China and their backgrounds. The second part deals with Soviet and Western perceptions and responses. The third part focuses on the aftermath of the revolutions, on societal transformations, the acceptance of the new Central European democracies to NATO and the EU, and on the memory of 1989. "By far the best collective work on this topic ... This book will be unique, and is much needed - at a time when social scientists continue to strive to understand the 'Arab revolutions'." Pierre Grosser "We get in-depth analysis and diversity of the assessments." Pierre Grosser"--EBSCO |
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World politics -- 1985-1995.
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Revolutions -- History -- 20th century
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Post-communism.
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Democratization.
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Democratization
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Politics and government
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Post-communism
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Revolutions
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World politics
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| SUBJECT |
Europe, Central -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003220
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Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580
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Central Europe
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Eastern Europe
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Europa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mueller, Wolfgang, editor
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Gehler, Michael, editor
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Suppan, Arnold, editor
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| ISBN |
9783700177791 |
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3700177798 |
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