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From Revolution to Uncertainty
The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe
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From Revolution to Uncertainty
The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe
About this book
Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience. Excitement, uncertainty, and fear predicated the shaping of a new order, the outcome of which was anything but predetermined.
Recent studies have focused on the ambivalent impact of capitalism. Yet, at the time, parliamentary democracy had equally few traditions to return to, and membership in the European Union was a distant dream at best. Nowadays, as new threats arise, Europe's current political crises prompt us to reconsider how liberal democracy in Eastern Europe came about in the first place.
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.
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Yes, you can access From Revolution to Uncertainty by Joachim von Puttkamer,Stanislav Holubec,Włodzimierz Borodziej in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & 20th Century History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Groping in the dark: expectations and predictions 1988–1991
- 2. Catalysts of the collapse and of the transition, 1989–1990
- 3. Poland and the collapse of the patron in 1989–90: as seen from the Polish embassy in Moscow
- 4. Tea with the primate: at the roots of political conflict in Poland
- 5. Czechoslovakia’s year of decision: from the socialist revolution of 1989 to the ‘real’ revolution of 1990
- 6. Talkin’ ’bout a revolution: on the social memory of 1989 in Hungary
- 7. A transition to what and whose democracy? 1990 in Bulgaria and Romania
- 8. When the Slovenian Spring turned into a hot summer
- 9. 1990: building democracy in Yugoslavia and the danger of war
- 10. Transforming industry: on the corporate origins of post-socialist nostalgia in Poland
- 11. German reunification and the dynamics of migration
- 12. The party is over: the identities and biographies of Czechoslovak and East German (post) communists in the year 1990
- 13. Poland, the German question, and German unification, 1989–1991
- 14. The German question and its European solution
- Index