Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

"The collective volume aims to analyse the events of 1989 in a broader perspective. On the one hand, it interrogates the impact of the 1989 revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe in the world at that particular moment, and, on the other, it argues that the revolution which started in 1989 goes on while inspiring mass mobilisation in other areas and in recent years, as was the case with the ‘Arab spring’, or the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in the USA, to name but a few. Inspired by the idea of Joseph de Maistre, who wrote about the French Revolution of 1789 that 'for a long time we did not fully understand the revolution of which we were witnesses; for a long time, we took it to be an event. We were mistaken; it was an epoch', the editors and the authors look at how the events of 1989 and their aftermath 'resonated years later and thousands of miles away'. The nine chapters deal with various topics such as Poland and the apartheid in South Africa, Soviet Central Asia, Tiananmen, the American Culture Wars, the Iraq war and the Middle East, the uprisings of 2011 in Northern Africa and the Occupy movement, the Euromaidan, etc."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPiotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill KunakhovichPART ONE: POLITICS AND POLICIES1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South AfricaAdrian Guelke and Tom Junes2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and AfghanistanVěra Exnerová3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and BeyondMartin K. DimitrovPART TWO: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture WarsJeffrey Stout5. The Virtue of Not Inventing AnythingIstván Rév6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global CareerMartin KrygierPART THREE: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle EastSamuel Helfont8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first CenturyMehmet Döşemeci9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?Valeria KorablyovaBibliographyContributorsIndex

Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

"The collective volume aims to analyse the events of 1989 in a broader perspective. On the one hand, it interrogates the impact of the 1989 revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe in the world at that particular moment, and, on the other, it argues that the revolution which started in 1989 goes on while inspiring mass mobilisation in other areas and in recent years, as was the case with the ‘Arab spring’, or the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in the USA, to name but a few. Inspired by the idea of Joseph de Maistre, who wrote about the French Revolution of 1789 that 'for a long time we did not fully understand the revolution of which we were witnesses; for a long time, we took it to be an event. We were mistaken; it was an epoch', the editors and the authors look at how the events of 1989 and their aftermath 'resonated years later and thousands of miles away'. The nine chapters deal with various topics such as Poland and the apartheid in South Africa, Soviet Central Asia, Tiananmen, the American Culture Wars, the Iraq war and the Middle East, the uprisings of 2011 in Northern Africa and the Occupy movement, the Euromaidan, etc."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPiotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill KunakhovichPART ONE: POLITICS AND POLICIES1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South AfricaAdrian Guelke and Tom Junes2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and AfghanistanVěra Exnerová3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and BeyondMartin K. DimitrovPART TWO: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture WarsJeffrey Stout5. The Virtue of Not Inventing AnythingIstván Rév6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global CareerMartin KrygierPART THREE: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle EastSamuel Helfont8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first CenturyMehmet Döşemeci9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?Valeria KorablyovaBibliographyContributorsIndex

Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland

"The collective volume aims to analyse the events of 1989 in a broader perspective. On the one hand, it interrogates the impact of the 1989 revolutions of Central and Eastern Europe in the world at that particular moment, and, on the other, it argues that the revolution which started in 1989 goes on while inspiring mass mobilisation in other areas and in recent years, as was the case with the ‘Arab spring’, or the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement in the USA, to name but a few. Inspired by the idea of Joseph de Maistre, who wrote about the French Revolution of 1789 that 'for a long time we did not fully understand the revolution of which we were witnesses; for a long time, we took it to be an event. We were mistaken; it was an epoch', the editors and the authors look at how the events of 1989 and their aftermath 'resonated years later and thousands of miles away'. The nine chapters deal with various topics such as Poland and the apartheid in South Africa, Soviet Central Asia, Tiananmen, the American Culture Wars, the Iraq war and the Middle East, the uprisings of 2011 in Northern Africa and the Occupy movement, the Euromaidan, etc."

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPiotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill KunakhovichPART ONE: POLITICS AND POLICIES1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South AfricaAdrian Guelke and Tom Junes2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and AfghanistanVěra Exnerová3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and BeyondMartin K. DimitrovPART TWO: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture WarsJeffrey Stout5. The Virtue of Not Inventing AnythingIstván Rév6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global CareerMartin KrygierPART THREE: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle EastSamuel Helfont8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first CenturyMehmet Döşemeci9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?Valeria KorablyovaBibliographyContributorsIndex