Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Rethinking 1989 15
5. Part One. MEMORIES AND LEGACIES OF 1989
6. Purposes of the Past 35
7. Twenty Years After 1989 55
8. Moderate Modernity and the Spirit of 1989 69
9. People Power? Towards a Historical Explanation of 1989 109
10. Was 1989 the End of Social Democracy? 127
11. Part Two. MOVING AWAY FROM THE COLD WAR
12. The Demise of the Soviet Bloc 171
13. Gorbachev and the Road to 1989 257
14. Success Was Not an Orphan: The Battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the Events of 1989–1991 291
15. “No One is Afraid to Talk to Us Anymore.” Radio Free Europe in 1989 313
16. Part Three. EASTERN EUROPE IN 1989
17. Revisiting the Nature and Legacies of the Ceauşescu Regime 331
18. Where Was the Serbian Havel? 363
19. Communism, the Experience of Light Electrification, and Legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989 381
20. Buying Time: Consumption and Political Legitimization in Late Communist Czechoslovakia 399
21. The Second Hat: Romanian Media-Mass from Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the Oligarchs 423
22. Part Four. AFTERMATHS OF EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
23. Totalitarian Discourse and Ceauşescu’s Loss of Words: Memorializing Rhetoric in 1989 Romania 441
24. “A Spectre is Haunting Europe. . .”: Dissidents, Intellectuals and a New Generation 465
25. Memory, Justice and Democratization in Post-Communism 495
26. Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in Post-1989 Europe 509
27. Incredible Voyage: Romania’s Communist Heirs Adapt and Survive After 1989 521
28. In the Footsteps of 1989: Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” as a Carnival of Anti-politics 543
29. Conclusion: Shades of Gray: Revisiting the Meanings of 1989 559
30. List of Contributors 579
31. Index 587