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The Revolutions of 1989

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The Revolutions of 1989

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Preliminaries

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

1

Wolfgang Mueller

The Revolutions of 1989: An Introduction

3

Andrei Grachev

Gorbachev and the “New Political Thinking”

33

Klaus Bachmann

Poland 1989: The Constrained Revolution

47

Andreas Oplatka

Hungary 1989: Renunciation of Power and Power-Sharing

77

Péter Vámos

The Tiananmen Square “Incident” in China and the East Central European Revolutions

93

Hans Hermann Hertle

The October Revolution in East Germany

113

Jiří Suk

Czechoslovakia in 1989: Causes, Results, and Conceptual Changes

137

Florian Bieber, Armina Galijaš

Yugoslavia 1989: The Revolutions that did (not) Happen

161

Ulf Brunnbauer

The End of Communist Rule in Bulgaria: The Crisis of Legitimacy and Political Change

177

Anneli Ute Gabanyi

The Romanian Revolution

199

Karsten Brüggemann

“One Day We Will Win Anyway”: The “Singing Revolution” in the Soviet Baltic Republics

221

Norman M. Naimark

The Superpowers and 1989 in Eastern Europe

249

Ella Zadorozhnyuk

The USSR and the Revolutions of 1989–90: Questions of Causality

271

Philip Zelikow

US Strategic Planning in 1989–90

283

Alexander von Plato

Opposition Movements and Big Politics in the Reunification of Germany

307

Wolfgang Mueller

The USSR and the Reunification of Germany, 1989–90

321

Klaus Larres

Margaret Thatcher and German Unification Revisited

355

Georges Saunier

France, the East European Revolutions, and the Reunification of Germany

385

Antonio Varsori

Italy, the East European Revolutions, and the Reunification of Germany, 1989–92

403

Arnold Suppan

Austria and its Neighbors in Eastern Europe, 1955–89

419

Michael Gehler

Austria, the Revolutions, and the Unification of Germany

437

Dieter Segert

Societal Transformations in Eastern Europe after 1989 and their Preconditions

467

Liliana Deyanova

Remembering Revolutions: The Public Memory of 1989 in Bulgaria

194

Mikhail Prozumenshchikov

The Revolutions of 1989 and the “Archival Revolution” in the USSR

509

Stanley R. Sloan

NATO Enlargement in the Beginning: An American Perspective

525

John O´Brennan

EU Enlargement, 1989–2009

553

Horst Möller

Epochal Changes, 1989–91

573

Michael Gehler

1989: Ambivalent Revolutions with Different Backgrounds and Consequences

587

Michael Gehler, Arnold Suppan

Chronology

605

Bibliography, Abbreviations, Authors, Index

635