The End of the Cold War: European Unity, Socialism, and the Shift in Global Power

The End of the Cold War was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

Against the backdrop of unprecedented change in the world political and social order, Bogdan Denitch charts the unique opportunities and potential pitfalls that accompany the increased economic and political integration of the European Community. Historically, any move toward unification has had broad ramifications. This, coming as it does in the wake of recent democratic upheavals in Europe, will bring to a close an entire era -- an era of a world dominated by superpowers and the cold war that defined there confrontations.

Bogdan Denitch is one of the few Eastern European and Soviet experts to have predicted the revolutions within Eastern Europe in 1989. He is emeritus professor of political sociology at CUNY Graduate Center and Queen’s College and the author of Limits and Possibilities: The Crisis of Yugoslav Socialism and State Socialist Systems (Minnesota) and The Socialist Debate: Beyond Red and Green.