TY  - BOOK
AU  - Banac,Ivo
AU  - Biberaj,Elez
AU  - Bruszt,Lászlό
AU  - Gross,Jan T.
AU  - Jowitt,Ken
AU  - Judt,Tony R.
AU  - Kligman,Gail
AU  - Naimark,Norman M.
AU  - Stark,David
AU  - Szelenyi,Ivan
AU  - Todorova,Maria N.
AU  - Verdery,Katherine
TI  - Eastern Europe in Revolution
SN  - 9781501733321
AV  - DJK51 .E27 2019
U1  - 947.0854 20
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Political Science & Political History
KW  - Soviet & East European History
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introduction --; Remaking the Political Field in Hungary: From the Politics of Confrontation to the Politics of Competition --; Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation --; “Ich will hier raus”: Emigration and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic --; Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia --; Romania after Ceau§escu: Post-Communist Communism? --; Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria --; Post-Communism as Post- Yugoslavism: The Yugoslav Non-Revolutions of 1989—1990 --; Albania: The Last Domino --; The Leninist Legacy --; Social and Political Landscape, Central Europe, Fall 1990 --; Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In this book twelve outstanding authorities present their thoroughgoing assessments of the East European revolution of 1989—the definite collapse of communism as an ideology, a political movement, and a system of power in eight countries. All but two of the contributors focus on the revolution in an individual region or country—Poland, Hungary, the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Albania—and each of them addresses the theme of regime transition.In Eastern Europe, of course, the transition from communism to democracy has been as complex and varied as the political geography of the notorious "fracture zone" itself, and individual authors thus concentrate on different sets of problems; they tell different kinds of stories. Pointing to the enormous difficulties of systematic transformation, they measure the dangers of nationality conflict and the potential for new authoritarianism.Ivo Banac has assembled a cast with impressive credentials. Without imposing an artificial unity on a chaotic subject, their book maps out the events of 1989-90 and sets the background for figuring out where the region may be headed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501733321
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501733321
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501733321/original
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