Cornell University Press
Eastern Europe in Revolution
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About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Ivo Banac is Professor of History and Master of Pierson College, Yale University.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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Remaking the Political Field in Hungary: From the Politics of Confrontation to the Politics of Competition
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Poland: From Civil Society to Political Nation
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“Ich will hier raus”: Emigration and the Collapse of the German Democratic Republic
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Metamorphosis: The Democratic Revolution in Czechoslovakia
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Romania after Ceau§escu: Post-Communist Communism?
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Improbable Maverick or Typical Conformist? Seven Thoughts on the New Bulgaria
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Post-Communism as Post- Yugoslavism: The Yugoslav Non-Revolutions of 1989—1990
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Albania: The Last Domino
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The Leninist Legacy
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Social and Political Landscape, Central Europe, Fall 1990
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Contributors
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Index
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