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The Demise of Communist East Europe - 1989 in Context (Hardcover)
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The Demise of Communist East Europe - 1989 in Context (Hardcover)
Series: Historical Endings
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In 1989 communism crumbled in eastern Europe and with it one of the
most conspicuous legacies of the Second World War. This book charts
the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of
the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the
post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes.
Starting from the premise that communism's proclaimed egalitarian,
modernizing goals always enjoyed more support than the one-party
politics through which these goals were pursued, Robin Okey
explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its
cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and
reform movements, and, after 1989, the growing divergence between
the northern and Balkan states, the revival of ex-communist parties
as the new liberalism faltered, and the repeated failure of
academics to anticipate these shifts. By analysing these issues in
the context of the region's drive since the nineteenth-century to
catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events
of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the
three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from
revolutionary France: liberalism, socialism and nationalism.
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