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Informationen zum Autor Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University Klappentext This book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. Zusammenfassung This book reassesses a defining historical! political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines! the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Timeline - Eastern Europe, 1945-91Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91 East European communist parties and their post-communist successors 1.The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes - Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe Part I. The historical longue durée2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective - Robin OkeyPart II. The Gorbachev factor3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions - Mary Buckley4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic- Peter GriederPart III. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution? - Tom Junes6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest - Lászl? Borhi7. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective - Michal Pullmann8. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution - Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean9. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case - Elena SimeonovaPart IV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath10. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR - Matthew Stibbe11. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland - Artur Lipinski12. From the 'thirst for change' and 'hunger for truth' to a 'revolution that hardly happened': public protests and reconstructions of the past in Bulgaria in the 1990s - Nikolai Vukov13. Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy - James KrapflSelect bibliography Index...
