The Demise of Communist East Europe - 1989 in Context

This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes. The author explains communism''s initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements. By analysing these issues in the context of the regions drive since the nineteenth-century to catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from revolutionary France: liberalism, socialism and nationalism>

Product details

• Authors: Robin Okey
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2004
• EAN: 9780340740569
• ISBN: 978-0-340-74056-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Historical Endings; Historical Endings
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, C 1980 To C 1990, c 1980 to c 1989, Marxism & Communism