McDermott / Stibbe The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe

From Communism to Pluralism
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0346-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDermott, Kevin

Stibbe, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Timeline - Eastern Europe, 1945–91
Leaders 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

I. The historical longue durée
2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective – Robin Okey
II. The Gorbachev factor
3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions – Mary Buckley
4. ‘When your neighbour changes his wallpaper’: the ‘Gorbachev factor’ and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic– Peter Grieder
III. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives
5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution? – Tom Junes
6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest – Lászl? Borhi
7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s – Holger Nehring
8. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective – Michal Pullmann
9. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution – Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean
10. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case – Elena Simeonova
IV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath
11. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR – Matthew Stibbe
12. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland – Artur Lipinski
13. 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 Vukov
14 Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy – James Krapfl
Select bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

McDermott Kevin:

Kevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam UniversityStibbe Matthew:

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam UniversityKevin McDermott is Senior Lecturer in Political History at Sheffield Hallam University

Matthew Stibbe is Professor of Modern European History at Sheffield Hallam University