The Fall: A Comparative Study of the End of Communism in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary and Poland

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Routledge, 11. 10. 2013 - 456 strán (strany)
With a foreword by Seymour Lipset, Hoover Institution and George Mason University, USA

The 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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Foreword
The Rightwing Shift After
The Collapse
The Main Framework
The Economic Situation
Implementing Economic Reforms
The Rise of Gorbachev and the Fall of Legitimacy
Regime Policy Before 1988
Social Movements Before 1988
Institutional Compromise
NonViolent Revolutions
Summary of the Model
Appendix
References
Index
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Civil Society and the Degree of Liberalization

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