The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and PolandRoutledge, 5. 7. 2017 - 456 strán (strany) With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USAThe Fall examines one of the twentieth century's great historical puzzles: why did the communist-led regimes in Eastern Europe collapse so quickly and why was the process of collapse so different from country to country? This major study explains why the impetus for change in Poland and Hungary came from the regimes themselves, while in Czechoslovakia and East Germany it was mass movements which led to the downfall of the regimes. |
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The Collapse | |
The Main Framework | |
The Economic Situation | |
Implementing Economic Reforms | |
The Rise of Gorbachev and the Fall of Legitimacy | |
Regime Policy Before 1988 | |
Civil Society and the Degree of Liberalization | |
Institutional Compromise | |
Nonviolent Revolutions | |
Summary of the Model | |
The Rightwing Shift after 1989 | |
Notes on the Interviews and Documentation 397 | |
Social Movements Before 1988 | |
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The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia ... Steven Saxonberg Obmedzený náhľad - 2013 |
The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia ... Steven Saxonberg Obmedzený náhľad - 2017 |
The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia ... Steven Saxonberg Obmedzený náhľad - 2013 |
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