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The Revolutions of 1989

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The Revolutions of 1989

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ISBN-13978-3-7001-7638-1
ISBN-13 Online978-3-7001-7779-1
Subject AreaModern History
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Preliminaries

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

page 1

Wolfgang Mueller

The Revolutions of 1989: An Introduction

page 3

Andrei Grachev

Gorbachev and the “New Political Thinking”

page 33

Klaus Bachmann

Poland 1989: The Constrained Revolution

page 47

Andreas Oplatka

Hungary 1989: Renunciation of Power and Power-Sharing

page 77

Péter Vámos

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

page 93

Hans Hermann Hertle

The October Revolution in East Germany

page 113

Jiří Suk

Czechoslovakia in 1989: Causes, Results, and Conceptual Changes

page 137

Florian Bieber - Armina Galijaš

Yugoslavia 1989: The Revolutions that did (not) Happen

page 161

Ulf Brunnbauer

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

page 177

Anneli Ute Gabanyi

The Romanian Revolution

page 199

Karsten Brüggemann

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

page 221

Norman M. Naimark

The Superpowers and 1989 in Eastern Europe

page 249

Ella Zadorozhnyuk

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

page 271

Philip Zelikow

US Strategic Planning in 1989–90

page 283

Alexander von Plato

Opposition Movements and Big Politics in the Reunification of Germany

page 307

Wolfgang Mueller

The USSR and the Reunification of Germany, 1989–90

page 321

Klaus Larres

Margaret Thatcher and German Unification Revisited

page 355

Georges Saunier

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

page 385

Antonio Varsori

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

page 403

Arnold Suppan

Austria and its Neighbors in Eastern Europe, 1955–89

page 419

Michael Gehler

Austria, the Revolutions, and the Unification of Germany

page 437

Dieter Segert

Societal Transformations in Eastern Europe after 1989 and their Preconditions

page 467

Liliana Deyanova

Remembering Revolutions: The Public Memory of 1989 in Bulgaria

page 194

Mikhail Prozumenshchikov

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

page 509

Stanley R. Sloan

NATO Enlargement in the Beginning: An American Perspective

page 525

John O´Brennan

EU Enlargement, 1989–2009

page 553

Horst Möller

Epochal Changes, 1989–91

page 573

Michael Gehler

1989: Ambivalent Revolutions with Different Backgrounds and Consequences

page 587

Michael Gehler - Arnold Suppan

Chronology

page 605

Bibliography, Abbreviations, Authors, Index

page 635