1st Edition
The Long 1989 Decades of Global Revolution
296 Pages
by
Central European University Press
The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays... Read more
Acknowledgment, Introduction Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill KunakhovichPart One: Politics and Policies 1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa Adrian Guelke and Tom Junes 2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan Věra Exnerová 3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and Beyond Martin K. DimitrovPart Two: Ideas and Ideologies 4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture Wars Jeffrey Stout 5. The Virtue of Not Inventing Anything István Rév 6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global Career Martin KrygierPart Three: Myths and Mythmaking 7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle East Samuel Helfont 8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first Century Mehmet Döşemeci 9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action? Valeria KorablyovaBibliography, Contributors, Index.
Biography
Kyrill Kunakhovich is Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia.
Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland.
