The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History

Published by Central European University Press 2012

The End and the Beginning

The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History

Edited by: Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob

https://doi.org/10.1515/9786155053672

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About this book

A fresh interpretation of the contexts, meanings, and consequences of the revolutions of 1989, coupled with state of the art reassessment of the significance and consequences of the events associated with the demise of communist regimes. The book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexities of the Soviet bloc, the events' impact upon Europe, and their re-interpretation within a larger global context. Departs from static ways of analysis (events and their significance) bringing forth approaches that deal with both pre-1989 developments and the 1989 context itself, while extensively discussing the ways of resituating 1989 in the larger context of the 20th century and of its lessons for the 21st.Emphasizes the possibility for re-thinking and re-visiting the filters and means that scholars use to interpret such turning point. The editors perceive the present project as a challenge to existing readings on the complex set of issues and topics presupposed by a re-evaluation of 1989 as a symbol of the change and transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

Author / Editor information

Tismaneanu Vladimir :

Vladimir Tismaneanu is Professor of politics and Director of the Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies at University of Maryland (College Park).

Iacob Bogdan C. :

Bogdan C. Iacob is Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Rethinking 1989 Vladimir Tismaneanu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Part One. MEMORIES AND LEGACIES OF 1989
Purposes of the Past Gale Stokes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Twenty Years After 1989 Agnes Heller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Moderate Modernity and the Spirit of 1989 Karol Edward Sołtan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
People Power? Towards a Historical Explanation of 1989 Konrad H. Jarausch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Was 1989 the End of Social Democracy? Cornel Ban Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Part Two. MOVING AWAY FROM THE COLD WAR
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc Mark Kramer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Gorbachev and the Road to 1989 Vladislav Zubok Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Success Was Not an Orphan: The Battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the Events of 1989–1991 Jeffrey Herf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
“No One is Afraid to Talk to Us Anymore.” Radio Free Europe in 1989 A. Ross Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Part Three. EASTERN EUROPE IN 1989
Revisiting the Nature and Legacies of the Ceauşescu Regime Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan C. Iacob Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
Where Was the Serbian Havel? Nick Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
Communism, the Experience of Light Electrification, and Legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989 Cătălin Avramescu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
Buying Time: Consumption and Political Legitimization in Late Communist Czechoslovakia Bradley Abrams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
The Second Hat: Romanian Media-Mass from Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the Oligarchs Ioan T. Morar and David Morar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	423
Part Four. AFTERMATHS OF EXTRAORDINARY TIMES
Totalitarian Discourse and Ceauşescu’s Loss of Words: Memorializing Rhetoric in 1989 Romania Noemi Marin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	441
“A Spectre is Haunting Europe. . .”: Dissidents, Intellectuals and a New Generation Marci Shore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	465
Memory, Justice and Democratization in Post-Communism Lavinia Stan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in Post-1989 Europe A. James McAdams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	509
Incredible Voyage: Romania’s Communist Heirs Adapt and Survive After 1989 Tom Gallagher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	521
In the Footsteps of 1989: Ukraine’s “Orange Revolution” as a Carnival of Anti-politics Peter Voitsekhovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
Conclusion: Shades of Gray: Revisiting the Meanings of 1989 Jeffrey C. Isaac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	559
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	579
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	587

Language: English
Publisher: Central European University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 602
Keywords: Democratization; Intellectuals; Media; Political studies; Postcommunism; Regime change; Transition

eBook

Published: June 20, 2012
ISBN: 9786155053672