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The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History

Vladimir Tismaneanu 2012 © Central European University, LLC
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  • 9786155053658 (hardcover)
  • 9786155053672 (ebook)
Subject
  • European 6: Russia & Eastern
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  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Rethinking 1989 (Vladimir Tismaneanu, page 15)
  • Part One. MEMORIES AND LEGACIES OF 1989
  • Purposes of the Past (Gale Stokes, page 35)
  • Twenty Years After 1989 (Agnes Heller, page 55)
  • Moderate Modernity and the Spirit of 1989 (Karol Edward Sołtan, page 69)
  • People Power? Towards a Historical Explanation of 1989 (Konrad H. Jarausch, page 109)
  • Was 1989 the End of Social Democracy? (Cornel Ban, page 127)
  • Part Two. MOVING AWAY FROM THE COLD WAR
  • The Demise of the Soviet Bloc (Mark Kramer, page 171)
  • Gorbachev and the Road to 1989 (Vladislav Zubok, page 257)
  • Success Was Not an Orphan: The Battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the Events of 1989-1991 (Jeffrey Herf, page 291)
  • "No One is Afraid to Talk to Us Anymore." Radio Free Europe in 1989 (A. Ross Johnson, page 313)
  • Part Three. EASTERN EUROPE IN 1989
  • Revisiting the Nature and Legacies of the Ceauşescu Regime (Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob, page 331)
  • Where Was the Serbian Havel? (Nick Miller, page 363)
  • Communism, the Experience of Light Electrification, and Legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989 (Cătălin Avramescu, page 381)
  • Buying Time: Consumption and Political Legitimization in Late Communist Czechoslovakia (Bradley Abrams, page 399)
  • The Second Hat: Romanian Media-Mass from Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the Oligarchs (Ioan T. Morar and David Morar, page 423)
  • Part Four. AFTERMATHS OF EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
  • Totalitarian Discourse and Ceauşescu's Loss of Words: Memorializing Rhetoric in 1989 Romania (Noemi Marin, page 441)
  • "A Spectre is Haunting Europe...": Dissidents, Intellectuals and a New Generation (Marci Shore, page 465)
  • Memory, Justice and Democratization in Post-Communism (Lavinia Stan, page 495)
  • Transitonal Justice and the Politicization of Memory in Post-1989 Europe (A. James McAdams, page 509)
  • Incredible Voyage: Romania's Communist Heirs Adapt and Survive After 1989 (Tom Gallagher, page 521)
  • In the Footsteps of 1989: Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" as a Carnival of Anti-politics (Peter Voitsekhovsky, page 543)
  • Conclusion: Shades of Gray: Revisiting the Meanings of 1989 (Jeffrey C. Isaac, page 559)
  • List of Contributors (page 579)
  • Index (page 587)
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