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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| One Revolution of the Earth | |
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| 1989 Chronologies | |
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| Antecedents | |
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| Cold War | |
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| Yalta Agreement (1945) | |
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| Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (March 5, 1946) | |
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| Brezhnev Doctrine (September 25, 1968) | |
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| Changes in China | |
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| Wei Jingsheng, The Fifth Modernization (December 1978) | |
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| From: U.S. Embassy Beijing, To: Department of State, Wash DC, Student Demonstrations Update (December 24, 1986) | |
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| East European Dissidents Speak Out | |
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| Hungarian Revolution 1956: Sixteen Political, Economic, and Ideological Points, Budapest (October 22, 1956) | |
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| Helsinki Accords, Articles VII-IX (1975) | |
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| Vaclav Havel, Power of the Powerless (1977) | |
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| Pope John Paul II, Homily for Mass (June 3, 1979) | |
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| Lech Walesa, Nobel Peace Prize Speech (December 10, 1983) | |
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| Adam Michnik, Letter from the Gdansk Prison (July 18, 1985) | |
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| Cold War Leadership at The End of The Cold War | |
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| Ronald Reagan, Tear Down This Wall Speech, Berlin (1987) | |
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| Ronald Reagan, Farewell Address (January 1989) | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech to the United Nations (December 7, 1988) | |
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| 1989: The Year of Revolution | |
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| The Soviet Union and East-Central Europe | |
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| High Noon (1989) | |
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| Slobodan Milosevic, Speech at Kosovo Polje (June 28, 1989) | |
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| The "Great Coup" from the FRG Commentary (September 2, 1989) | |
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| Gunter Schabowski, Press Conference in the GDR International Press Center (November 9, 1989) | |
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| Ferdinand Protzman, Clamor in the East: Jubilation in Berlin; a Day for Celebration and a Bit of Shopping (November 11, 1989) | |
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| Premier Ladislav Adamec, Speech at an Extraordinary Session of the CC CPCz, Prague (November 24, 1989) | |
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| Transcript of the Closed Trial of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu (December 25, 1989) | |
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| Vaclav Havel, New Year's Speech to the Nation (January 1, 1990) | |
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| China Beijing Spring | |
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| An Open Letter to Beijing University Authorities (April 3, 1989) | |
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| Nicholas Kristof, Obituary for Hu Yaobang (April 16, 1989) | |
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| Renmin ribao (People's Daily) Editorial (April 26, 1989) | |
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| Open Letter to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (April 28, 1989) | |
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| Zhao Ziyang, Speech to Asian Development Bank (May 4, 1989) | |
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| New May Fourth Manifesto (May 4, 1989) | |
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| Transcript of Meeting between Premier Li Peng and Students (May 18, 1989) | |
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| Li Peng, Speech on Behalf of Party Central Committee and State Council (May 19-20, 1989) | |
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| Cui Jian, Nothing to My Name (1986) | |
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| Interview with Chai Ling (May 1989) | |
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| The Tank Man (June 5, 1989) | |
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| What Happened on the Night of June 3/4? (June 22, 1989) | |
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| Africa | |
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| The Mandela Document (July 5, 1989) | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| China | |
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| Deng Xiaoping, Remarks to Martial Law Officers (June 9, 1989) | |
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| Introduction, The Truth about the Beijing Turmoil (1990) | |
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| Wu'er Kaixi, As Survivors, Our Lives No Longer Belong to Us Alone (June 28, 1989) | |
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| Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (December 10, 1989) | |
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| Eastern Europe | |
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| The Proclamation of Timisoara (March 1990) | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, Speech Dissolving the Soviet Union (USSR) (December 25, 1991) | |
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| Vaclav Havel, Five Years Later (November 1994) | |
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| Jirina Siklova, Why Western Feminism Isn't Working in the Czech Republic (1999) | |
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| Zoltan Barany, Orphans of Transition: Gypsies in Eastern Europe (1998) | |
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| For Further Reading | |
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| Credits | |
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| Index | |