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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495865003321

Autore

Lévesque Jacques

Titolo

The enigma of 1989 : the USSR and the liberation of Eastern Europe / / Jacques Lévesque ; translated from the French by Keith Martin [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1997

ISBN

0-585-07897-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 267 p. )

Disciplina

327.47047/09048

Soggetti

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Eastern Europe

Europe, Eastern Foreign relations Soviet Union

Soviet Union Foreign relations Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern Politics and government 1945-1989

Soviet Union Foreign relations 1985-1991

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The Meaning of Events That Changed the World -- ; pt. I. The Place of Eastern Europe in Gorbachev's Political Project. ; 1. Gorbachev's Foreign Policy and the Nature of His Enterprise. ; 2. The European Initiative. ; 3. The Meaning of Soviet Immobilism in Eastern Europe: From 1985 to the Summer of 1988. ; 4. The Second Half of 1988: The Turning Point -- ; pt. II. 1989: The Apotheosis of the Soviet Union's New Foreign Policy. ; 5. Soviet Scenarios for Eastern Europe's Future at the Beginning of 1989. ; 6. Poland: The Ideal Model. ; 7. Hungary: An Acceptable (and Accepted) Evolution. ; 8. East Germany: The Fatal Acceleration. ; 9. Bulgaria: The Most Faithful Ally until the Very End. ; 10. Czechoslovakia: From Neglect to Paralysis.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on interviews and research "in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and the other ex-Warsaw Pact countries, this book traces the nuances of each country's case as a set of continually changing, mutually reinforcing causes and effects."--Jacket.