Back to Cold War and beyond

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements IX
4. Introduction. The legacy of division: East and West after 1989 1
5. Staring through the mocking glass: Three misperceptions of the East-West divide since 1989 11
6. Back to Cold War and beyond 20
7. The price of unity The transformation of Germany and east central Europe after 1989 30
8. Thirty years on: Germany’s unfinished unity 48
9. This mess of troubled times 59
10. The mythology of the East-West divide 70
11. Anxious Europe 76
12. ‘But this is the world we live in’ Corruption, everyday managing, and civic mobilization in post-socialist Romania 84
13. The end of the liberal world as we know it? Two walls in 1989 97
14. Wests, East-Wests, and divides 104
15. The Great Substitution 111
16. The struggle over 1989. The rise and contestation of eastern European populism 123
17. Beyond anti-democratic temptation 134
18. Dissidence – doubt – creativity: Revisiting 1983 144
19. Gendering dissent: Human rights, gender history and the road to 1989 154
20. Creating feminism in the shadow of male heroes That other story of 1989 177
21. Legacies of 1989 for dissent today 187
22. Of hopes and ends: Czech transformations after 1989 209
23. Just because the map says so, doesn’t mean it’s true: Thirty years after 1989, from an island perspective 219
24. The East in you never leaves 227
25. Freedom of movement: A European dialectic 232
26. ‘The Romanians are coming’ Emerging divisions and enduring misperceptions in contemporary Europe 241
27. The two faces of European disillusionment: An end to myths about the West and the East 254
28. Go East! 264
29. ‘The future was next to you’ An interview with Ivan Krastev on ’89 and the end of liberal hegemony 275
30. ‘The distorting mirror’ A conversation between Igor Pomerantsev and Peter Pomerantsev 291
31. Bibliography 298
32. List of Contributors 316
33. Index 329