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 |
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| Main Author: | Lévesque, Jacques. |
| Other Authors: | EBSCOhost. |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1997]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.