Description |
xii, 495 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Thoughts on progress, peaceful coexistence, and intellectual freedom / Andrei Sakharov -- The power of the powerless / Vaclav Havel -- New horizons in Europe / Alfred Herrhausen -- Tales from The wonderful years / Reiner Kunze -- Life and consequences : being a writer in divided Germany / Reiner Kunze -- Town mice and country mice : the East German revolution / Edith Anderson -- November in Berlin / Eric Gabriel -- Don't reunify Germany / Gunter Grass -- Poland : the world's guinea pig / Ewa Kuryluk -- The price of Polish economic reform / Leszek Balcerowicz -- The moral and spiritual origins of solidarity / Adam Michnik -- Czech writers : politicians in spite of themselves / Josef Skvorecky -- Four essays / Vaclav Havel -- Hungary hearts / Tamas Aczel. |
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The siege on Nogradi Street, Budapest, 1989 / George Paul Csicsery -- Romania : three lines with commentary / Norman Manea -- The peaceful revolution in Lithuania / Thomas A. Oleszczuk -- Economic independence is not enough for Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia / John Jekabson -- Gorbachev and the revolution of 1989-1990 / William M. Brinton -- To the Stalin Mausoleum / "Z" (anonymous) -- Address to the Soviet Communist Party Central Committee's Plenary Meeting, February 5, 1990 / Mikhail Gorbachev -- The role of the media in a telerevolution / William M. Brinton -- The Helsinki Final Act and other international covenants supporting freedom and human rights / William M. Brinton -- Address to the United States Congress, February 1990 / Vaclav Havel. |
Subject |
Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-
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Added Author |
Brinton, William M.
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Rinzler, Alan.
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ISBN |
0916515923 |
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9780916515928 |
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0916515788 |
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9780916515782 |
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