Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. List of abbreviations and glossary of terms xi
6. Timeline xiv
7. Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945–91 xvii
8. East European communist parties and their post-communist successors xix
9. 1 The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe 1
10. Part I The historical longue duree
11. 2 Echoes and precedents 33
12. Part II The 'Gorbachev factor'
13. 3 The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions 55
14. 4 ‘When your neighbour changes his wallpaper’ 73
15. Part III The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives
16. 5 The demise of communism in Poland 95
17. 6 The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989 113
18. 7 Creating security from below 136
19. 8 The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987–89 154
20. 9 Discourse and power 172
21. 10 A revolution in two stages 192
22. Part IV Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath
23. 11 A hopeless case of optimism? 213
24. 12 Meanings of 1989 235
25. 13 From the ‘thirst for change’ and ‘hunger for truth’ to a ‘revolution that hardly happened’ 253
26. Afterword 271
27. Select bibliography 285
28. Index 289