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Robin Okey - Demise of Communist East Europe, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2004

Demise of Communist East Europe

1989 in Context

Av Robin Okey

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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. The author explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements. By analysing these issues in the context of the regions 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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Robin Okey is Reader in History at the University of Warwick

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..a sensible and convincing interpretation of one of the most important and seminal events of recent years. Okey writes well. His text, full of statistics and illustrative quotes, is nonetheless succinct and accessible. ...it is bound to become (in academic circles at least) the standard work on the subject. BBC History This is a thoughtful study by a historian who is skilled in finding patterns and continuities. It gives a much-needed balance to the many sociological, political science, and economic studies on related topics. Highly recommended. CHOICE

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