Contested Legacies of 1989

Strongly affected by modern history and facing dilemmas of modernity, Central and Eastern Europe has been healing fresh wounds for the past 30 years. The present volume analyzes the contemporary challenges related to the heritage of 1989. The peaceful revolution brought substantial socio-cultural, institutional and strategic transformations, setting a long-term course for Central and Eastern European policymaking. Recently, however, these legacies, namely the geopolitical aspects of the transformation, the policies of collective memory, and even intrasocietal issues, have been questioned more than ever. It seems the region is approaching the end of a revolutionary cycle of transition. This volume tries to investigate this phenomenon as it unfolds.

Nicolas Maslowski, Ph.D., is director of the CCFEF, the French-Polish center of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Warsaw. His research centers around issues in Central and Eastern Europe, collective memory and historical sociology.

Kinga Torbicka, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the CCFEF at the University of Warsaw. She focuses her research on geopolitics and the security of Central and Eastern Europe.