Spring in Winter: The 1989 Revolutions - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0719034450 ISBN 13: 9780719034459

Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr, 1991

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From Publishers Weekly

This absorbing collection of eight essays gives readers a glimpse of the historic events of 1989 from an Eastern European point of view. East German Jens Reich describes "wall-sickness," the dullness and loneliness that come from being caged in the center of Europe, and the sudden, avalanche-like nature of the German revolution. Jan Urban discusses his own resistance to the Czechoslovakian Communist regime and differences between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the revolt of 1989. Jonathan Eyal reviews Ceausescu'sspelled this way in book strategies for exercising power, noting that the revolt that brought him down was only an "outburst of anger" and that Romania's future remains to be decided. Andrei A. Piontkowsky observes that the U.S.S.R.'s decision not to intervene and crush the revolts was less ideologic than pragmatic, deriving from that country's experiences in Afghanistan. In two essays by Westerners, British James Eberle comments that his country must now join the accelerating process of European integrationp. 208 , and John Kenneth Galbraith warns that Eastern Europe will not turn toward a Smithian free market. Prins is director of the University of Cambridge Global Security Programme.
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From Library Journal

During 1990, Cambridge University's new Global Security Program sponsored a lecture series on the recent events in Eastern Europe with prominent figures from Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Soviet Union speaking about the particular events in their own countries. For this collection, an additional contribution from John Kenneth Galbraith offers an American perspective on the changes in Europe, while James Eberle's essay presents the British viewpoint. A comparative chronology helps the reader to compare events and timing among the six nations. This volume is similar to Without Force or Lies ( LJ 8/90) and After the Velvet Revolution ( LJ 4/15/91), except that those essays were written by academicians for other academicians, not by key political players. Appropriate for academic libraries and area studies collections.
- Marcia L. Sprules, Council of Foreign Relations Lib., New York
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Edition details

• Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719034450
• ISBN 13: 9780719034459
• Binding: Paperback
• Editor: Prins Gwyn