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Carnival of Revolution Central Europe 1989

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ISBN-10: 069111627X

ISBN-13: 9780691116273

Edition: 2003

Authors: Padraic Kenney

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This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind of activity that stirred so crucially, unstoppably, on the street. Melding his experience in Solidarity-era Poland with the sensibility of a historian, Padraic Kenney takes us into the hearts and minds of those revolutionaries across much of Central Europe who have since faded namelessly back into everyday life. This is a riveting story of musicians, artists, and guerrilla theater collectives…    
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Book details

List price: $49.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Padraic Kenney is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe, 1989 and editor of Transnational Moments of Change and Partisan Histories .

Introduction: Street Theater, Concrete Poetry
Actors, Stages, Repertoires
Eating the Crocodile with a Spoon, or, A Career Guide to the Underground
The Amnesty Trap
Political Charity
Church and Opposition
The Workers' Dilemma
Vents or Accumulators?
Come With Us! They Aren't Beating Today! The Art of the Blizzard
The Ballad of Marek Adamkiewicz
Conservative Pacism, Anarchist Nationalism
Ideals and Instruments
"Radiators" across the Bloc
Zarnobyl
The Blue and the Green
Bratislava Speaks Up
"I'd Rather Live"
In the Future Tense
As If in Europe: The International World of Peace and Human Rights
Reticence and Revolutionary Tourism
Dialogue for an Endangered
Continent
Helsinki from Below
On the Friendship Trail
Borders Fall in East Germany
Coventry Cathedral and the Church on Zytnia Street
The New Politics of the Konkretny Generation
A Shy Little Wave for Gorbachev
The Lion Cubs of Western Ukraine
Slovenia's People for Peace Culture
Hungarian Orange Appeal
Towards an Opposition in Prague
Workers of the Last Hour
How the Smurfs Captured Gargamel, or, A Revolution of Style
The Elfn Rebellion
Hippies in the Holy Garden
The Young Subversive's Handbook
Gloom in Krakcw
Pietia's Crusade
Pornoslavia
God, King, and Country in Bohemia
To Become a Smurf
Photoessay
A Revolution In Sixteen Scenes
"Blink, and I See Another World": The Candlelight March
A Tale of Two Lenins
Slovene Spring
Days That Shook Lviv
Strikes in Shades of Orange
An Invasion Remembered
WaterDam/ned: Hungary Defends the Danube
Independence Day and Palach Week
Encircling the Round Table
Mothers and Children
On the Fourth of June
Hungarians Bury the Communists
Korzos and Road Races
Lviv Passes the Baton
The Mosquito and the Messedemos
Bring a Flower with You! The Velvet Revolution
Epilogue: No More Picnics, After the Revolution
Jacob's Retreat Remembering 1989
Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Index