Description |
vii, 594 p. : Tables ; 24 cm. |
Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Note |
Published in 2012 by Central European University Press. |
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The volume includes revised and extended versions of papers presented at conference "The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History" (Washington, D.C., November 9-10, 2009) organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute. |
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Printed in Hungary by Prime Rate Kft., Budapest. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Memories and Legacies of 1989 -- Moving Away from The Cold War -- Eastern Europe in 1989 -- Aftermaths of Extraordinary Times. |
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Purposes of the Past -- Twenty Years After 1989 -- Moderate Modernity and the Spirit of 1989 -- People Power? Towards a Historical Explanation of 1989 -- Was 1989 the End of Social Democracy? -- The Demise of the Soviet Bloc -- Gorbachev and the Road to 1989 -- Success Was Not an Orphan: The Battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the Events of 1989-1991 -- "No One is Afraid to Talk to Us Anymore." Radio Free Europe in 1989 -- Revisiting the Nature and Legacies of the Ceauescu Regime -- Where Was the Serbian Havel? -- Communism, the Experience of Light Electrification, and Legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989 -- Buying Time: Consumption and Political Legitimization in Late Communist Czechoslovakia -- The Second Hat: Romanian Media-Mass from Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the Oligarchs -- Totalitarian Discourse and Ceauescu's Loss of Words: Memorializing Rhetoric in 1989 Romania -- "A Spectre is Haunting Europe...": Dissidents, Intellectuals and a New Generation -- Memory, Justice and Democratization in Post-Communism -- Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in Post-1989 Europe -- Incredible Voyage: Romania's Communist Heirs Adapt and Survive After 1989 -- In the Footsteps of 1989: Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" as a Carnival of Anti-politics. |
Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
Subject |
Revolutions -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Revolutions -- Communist countries -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Romania -- History -- Revolution, -- 1989 -- Congresses.
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Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1989 -- Congresses.
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Tismaneanu, Vladimir.
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Iacob, Bogdan.
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European 6 : -- Russia & Eastern.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9786155053658 hardbound |
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9786155053672 Hardcover |
Standard No. |
2027/heb32286 hdl |
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