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- catalog abstract ""In 1989 communism crumbled in eastern Europe and with it one of the most conspicuous legacies of the Second World War. This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes." "Starting from the premise that communism's proclaimed egalitarian, modernizing goals always enjoyed more support than the one-party politics through which these goals were pursued, Robin Okey explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements, and, after 1989, the growing divergence between the northern and Balkan states, the revival of ex-communist parties as the new liberalism faltered, and the repeated failure of academics to anticipate these shifts. By analysing these issues in the context of the region's drive since the nineteenth century to catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from revolutionary France : liberalism, socialism and nationalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13325563.
- catalog coverage "Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989-".
- catalog coverage "Europe, Eastern History 1989-".
- catalog coverage "Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-".
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""In 1989 communism crumbled in eastern Europe and with it one of the most conspicuous legacies of the Second World War. This book charts the demise of east European communism and analyses the failure of the communist experiment, the revolutionary events of 1989 and the post-communist aftermath as the legacy of both these processes." "Starting from the premise that communism's proclaimed egalitarian, modernizing goals always enjoyed more support than the one-party politics through which these goals were pursued, Robin Okey explains communism's initial ability to survive crises but then its cumulative decline in the face of dissidence, economic weakness and reform movements, and, after 1989, the growing divergence between the northern and Balkan states, the revival of ex-communist parties as the new liberalism faltered, and the repeated failure of academics to anticipate these shifts. By analysing these issues in the context of the region's drive since the nineteenth century to catch up with western Europe, this book concludes that the events of 1989 can cast light more widely still, on the fortunes of the three great ideas that the continent as a whole derived from revolutionary France : liberalism, socialism and nationalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-225) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I Causes: failure of an experiment -- 1 A flawed legacy 3 -- 2 The 1980s: a flawed society 24 -- 3 The centre cannot hold 46 -- 4 The demise of communism: breach and balance sheet 66 -- Part II Course: revolution and system change -- 5 Autumn 1989 83 -- 6 System change: the liberal moment in east-central Europe 107 -- 7 Balkan vicissitudes 131 -- Part III Consequences: towards a new eastern Europe -- 8 The internal dimension: an end to transition? 157 -- 9 1989 in the international context 175.".
- catalog extent "x, 230 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0340740566 (hbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0340740574 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Historical endings".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : Arnold ;, New York : Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, Inc.,".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern Economic conditions 1989-".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern History 1989-".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1989-".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern".
- catalog spatial "Europe, Eastern.".
- catalog subject "Communism Europe, Eastern History.".
- catalog subject "HX240.7 .O555 2004".
- catalog subject "Post-communism Europe, Eastern.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I Causes: failure of an experiment -- 1 A flawed legacy 3 -- 2 The 1980s: a flawed society 24 -- 3 The centre cannot hold 46 -- 4 The demise of communism: breach and balance sheet 66 -- Part II Course: revolution and system change -- 5 Autumn 1989 83 -- 6 System change: the liberal moment in east-central Europe 107 -- 7 Balkan vicissitudes 131 -- Part III Consequences: towards a new eastern Europe -- 8 The internal dimension: an end to transition? 157 -- 9 1989 in the international context 175.".
- catalog title "The demise of communist East Europe : 1989 in context / Robin Okey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".