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Author Stokes, Gale, 1933-2012.

Title The walls came tumbling down : the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe / Gale Stokes
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 319 pages)
Contents The new opposition : antipolitics and solidarity -- The gang of four and their nemesis -- The momentum of change in Hungary -- Solidarity : the return of the repressed in Poland -- The glorious revolutions of 1989 -- 1990 and 1991 : the first two years of a long time -- The devil's finger : the disintegration of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue and prologue : the new pluralism
Summary Looks at the forces that helped defeat communism in Eastern Europe, including Solidarity and Charter 77, a group of Czech intellectuals who demanded that their government obey its own laws
Analysis Social conditions History, 1945-
Eastern Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject HISTORY.
Demokratisierung
Politischer Wandel
Communisme.
Verval (geschiedenis)
Communisme -- Europe de l'Est -- 1970-2000.
Eastern Europe -- History -- 1945-
COMMUNISM.
DEMOCRACY.
EASTERN EUROPE.
HISTORY.
HUNGARY.
NATIONALISM.
PLURALISM.
POLAND.
POLITICAL SYSTEMS.
YUGOSLAVIA.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045774
Subject Eastern Europe.
Osteuropa
Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945-
Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1989-
Europe de l'Est -- 1945-1989.
Europe de l'Est -- 1989- ...
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
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