THE 1989 REVOLUTIONS in Central and Eastern Europe: From Communism to Pluralism

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Timeline: Eastern Europe, 1945–91

Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945–91

East European communist parties and their post-communist successors

1. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes: Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe

2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective: Robin Okey

3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions: Mary Buckley

4. ‘When your neighbour changes his wallpaper’: The ‘Gorbachev factor’ and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic: Peter Grieder

5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution?: Tom Junes

6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest*: László Borhi

7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s: Holger Nehring

8. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987–89: a socio-economic perspective: Michal Pullmann

9. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution: Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean

10. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case: Elena Simeonova

11. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR*: Matthew Stibbe

12. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland: Artur Lipiński

13. From the ‘thirst for change’ and ‘hunger for truth’ to a ‘revolution that hardly happened’: public protests and reconstructions: Nikolai Vukov

Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy: James Krapfl

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