The enigma of 1989 the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe /

Based on interviews and research "in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the other ex-Warsaw Pact countries, this book traces the nuances of each country's case as a set of continually changing, mutually reinforcing causes and effects."--Jacket.

Uniform Title: 1989, la fin d'un empire. English
Main Author: Lévesque, Jacques.
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
French
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages)
Subjects:
Summary: Based on interviews and research "in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the other ex-Warsaw Pact countries, this book traces the nuances of each country's case as a set of continually changing, mutually reinforcing causes and effects."--Jacket.
Item Description: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The place of Eastern Europe in Gorbachev's political project: Gorbachev's Foreign Policy and the Nature of His Enterprise -- The European Initiative -- The Meaning of Soviet Immobilism in Eastern Europe From 1985 to the Summer of 1988 -- The Second Half of 1988 The Turning Point Part II: 1989: The apotheosis of the Soviet Union's new foreign policy: Soviet Scenarios for Eastern Europe's Future at the Beginning of 1989 -- Poland The Ideal Model -- Hungary An Acceptable (and Accepted) Evolution -- East Germany The Fatal Acceleration -- Bulgaria The Most Faithful Ally until the Very End -- Czechoslovakia From Neglect to Paralysis -- Romania The Tangle of Plots and Mysteries -- Part III: The great project's ruin: After the Earthquake -- The Reunification and Status of Germany, The Last Battle for Europe -- The Agony and the End of the Warsaw Pact.
Based on interviews and research "in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the other ex-Warsaw Pact countries, this book traces the nuances of each country's case as a set of continually changing, mutually reinforcing causes and effects."--Jacket.
English.
Colorado Mountain College - E-book Collection / Ebsco.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0585078971
9780585078977
9780520206311
0520206312