Walls Came Tumbling Down Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe

Name: Walls Came Tumbling Down Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9780199732630

ISBN-10: 0199732639

ISBN-13: 9780199732630

Edition: 2nd 2012

Authors: Gale Stokes

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Beginning with the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and culminating in the 1989-1991 revolutions, The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a sweeping, vivid narrative of the gradual collapse of Eastern European communism. Focusing on the decades of unrest that precipitated 1989's tumultuous events, and including information obtained firsthand from personal interviews, Gale Stokes provides a comprehensive history of the various communist regimes and the opposition movements that brought them down, including the "March Days" and Solidarity Movement of Poland, the 1975 Helsinki accords, Czechoslovakia's Charter 77 opposition movement, the autocratic policies of Romania's Nicolae Ceaucescu that…

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List price: $44.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Maps


Preface to the Second Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Introduction



The New Opposition: Antipolitics and Solidarity



The Gang of Four and Their Nemesis



The Momentum of Change in Hungary



Solidarity: The Return of the Repressed in Poland



The Glorious Revolutions of 1989



The Devil's Finger: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia



The New European Order



Central Europe on the Move



Southeastern Europe: A Glass Half Empty


Epilogue: Pluralism, the New Reality


Index