A comprehensive introduction to the nations of Central and Eastern Europe over a half century of turbulent change - from post war subjugation by the Soviet Union to both shared and divergent experiences of post-Communist transition to free-market democracies.
"This comprehensive reference, an expanded edition of Revolutions in Eastern Europe, provides a general introduction and broad historical background of Eastern and Central European countries from the First World War onwards, focusing on the ...
This book undertakes an analysis of the year 1990 in several countries throughout Europe to consider the role of uncertainty and change in shaping political nations.
Economic development, electoral upheaval, and the Bosnian crisis all color the transition from communism to democracy and from a Cold War outlook to a new global order still taking shape.In this fully revised and updated edition of his ...
... see S. Frederick Starr, "Soviet Union: A Civil Society," Foreign Policy, no. 70 (Spring 1988): 26-41. Cited in Brown, "Gorbachev and Reform," 148. "A New Philosophy of Foreign Policy," Pravda, July 10, 1987, 4; translated in CDSP, ...
These “mobile killing units', which later orchestrated and carried out mass shootings of Soviet Jews and ... prelude to the more scientific and industrialized mass extermination of West European, East Central European, Central European, ...
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.
This timely book provides an essential guide to the social, political and economic upheavals in post-communist Europe The collapse of state socialism in Eastern Europe in 1989 seemed like a revolution at the time to many participants in the ...
East Germany (GDR) Childs, D., The Fall of the GDR: Germany's Road to Unity (Harlow, 2001). ... Pfaff, S., Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989 (Durham and London, ...
In The Capitalist Revolution in Eastern Europe, Laszlo Csaba offers an applied economics interpretation of the modernization attempts which followed the collapse of the Soviet empire and of the state...
43 Vladimir Tismaneanu, Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003). 44 While this remains a particular perspective that cannot claim to be entirely exhaustive ...