
Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
Challenges to Communist Rule
- 224 pages
- English
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Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
Challenges to Communist Rule
About this book
The history of Eastern Europe during the Cold War is one punctuated by protest and rebellion. Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe covers these flashpoints from the Stalin-Tito split of 1948 to the dramatic collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Covering East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and Romania, the authors provide comprehensive critical analysis of the varying forms of dissent in the East European socialist states. They take a comparative approach and show how the different movements affected one another. Incorporating archival material only accessible since 1989, they discuss issues such as the diverse manifestations of non-conformity among different strata of the population, the complex relationship between Moscow and the national Communist Parties, the loosening of Soviet control after 1985, and everyday resistance to state authority. This book offers a firm grounding in the tumultuous decades of communist rule, which is essential to understanding the contemporary politics of Eastern Europe.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms
- List of Archives and Archival Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword
- 1 Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
- Part I
- 2 The Soviet-Yugoslav Split
- 3 The SED, German Communism and the June 1953 Uprising
- 4 Poland and Hungary, 1956
- Part II
- 5 Romania, 1945–89
- 6 The Prague Spring
- 7 Solidarity, 1980–1
- Part III
- 8 Negotiated Revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989
- 9 ‘To Learn from the Soviet Union is to Learn How to Win’
- 10 Revolution and Revolt against Revolution
- 11 Afterword
- Index