This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. -- .
This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. -- .
Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University
Inhaltsangabe
Timeline - Eastern Europe, 1945-91 Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91 East European communist parties and their post-communist successors 1.The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe Part I. The historical longue durée 2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective - Robin Okey Part II. The Gorbachev factor 3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions - Mary Buckley 4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic- Peter Grieder Part III. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives 5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution? - Tom Junes 6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest - Lászl? Borhi 7. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective - Michal Pullmann 8. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution - Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean 9. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case - Elena Simeonova Part IV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath 10. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR - Matthew Stibbe 11. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland - Artur Lipinski 12. 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 - Nikolai Vukov 13. Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy - James Krapfl Select bibliography Index
Timeline - Eastern Europe, 1945-91 Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91 East European communist parties and their post-communist successors 1.The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe Part I. The historical longue durée 2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective - Robin Okey Part II. The Gorbachev factor 3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions - Mary Buckley 4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic- Peter Grieder Part III. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives 5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution? - Tom Junes 6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest - Lászl? Borhi 7. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective - Michal Pullmann 8. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution - Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean 9. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case - Elena Simeonova Part IV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath 10. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR - Matthew Stibbe 11. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland - Artur Lipinski 12. 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 - Nikolai Vukov 13. Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy - James Krapfl Select bibliography Index
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