Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
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Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe

Challenges to Communist Rule

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

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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Information

Year
2006
Print ISBN
9781845202590
eBook ISBN
9781847883247
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms
  4. List of Archives and Archival Abbreviations
  5. Notes on Contributors
  6. Foreword
  7. 1 Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe
  8. Part I
  9. 2 The Soviet-Yugoslav Split
  10. 3 The SED, German Communism and the June 1953 Uprising
  11. 4 Poland and Hungary, 1956
  12. Part II
  13. 5 Romania, 1945–89
  14. 6 The Prague Spring
  15. 7 Solidarity, 1980–1
  16. Part III
  17. 8 Negotiated Revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989
  18. 9 ‘To Learn from the Soviet Union is to Learn How to Win’
  19. 10 Revolution and Revolt against Revolution
  20. 11 Afterword
  21. Index