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Zusatztext This imaginative collection reflects the most updated findings on the nature of Communist rule and the real content of some of the most striking crises in post-1945 Eastern Europe. The well-orchestrated team of authors has made the best use of the decade-and-a-half of open archives in the region. The results frequently startle and upset the various received interpretations! but always in a convincing and documented way. Informationen zum Autor KEVIN MCDERMOTT is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He is the author of several books, including Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture (2010), and the editor of several volumes of essays on 20th-century European themes, including Aftermaths of War (2011) and Women Activists between War and Peace (2017), both co-edited with Ingrid Sharp. Zusammenfassung The history of Eastern Europe during the Cold War is one punctuated by protest and rebellion. This book covers these flashpoints from the Stalin-Tito split of 1948 to the dramatic collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It provides comprehensive critical analysis of the varying forms of dissent in the East European socialist states. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms * List of Archives and Archival Abbreviations * Notes on Contributors * Foreword by Professor Pavel Seifter (Czech Ambassador to the UK, 1997-2003)* Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: An OverviewKevin McDermott and Matthew StibbePart I* The Soviet-Yugoslav SplitLeonid Gibianskii* The SED, German Communism and the June 1953 Uprising: New Trends and New ResearchMatthew Stibbe* Poland and Hungary, 1956: A Comparative Essay Based on New Archival FindingsJohanna GranvillePart II* Romania, 1945-89: Resistance, Protest and DissentDennis Deletant* The Prague Spring: From Elite Liberalisation to Mass MovementKieran Williams * Solidarity, 1980-81: The Second Vistula Miracle?Bartosz KaliskiPart III* Negotiated Revolution in Poland and Hungary, 1989Nigel Swain* 'To Learn from the Soviet Union is to Learn How to Win': The East German Revolution of 1989-90Peter Grieder* Revolution and Revolt against Revolution: Czechoslovakia, 1989James Krapfl* Afterword: East or West?Tony Kemp-Welch* Index...
