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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797720103321

Titolo

Sunningdale, the Ulster workers' council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland / / edited by David McCann and Cillian McGrattan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2017

ISBN

1-5261-0839-9

1-5261-2412-2

0-7190-9951-X

1-5261-0838-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Disciplina

943.0009048

Soggetti

General Strike, Northern Ireland, 1974

Northern Ireland Politics and government

Northern Ireland History 1968-1998

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index.

Nota di contenuto

THE 1989 REVOLUTIONS in Central and Eastern Europe: From Communism to Pluralism; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and glossary of terms; Timeline: Eastern Europe, 1945-91; Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91; East European communist parties and their post-communist successors; 1. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes: Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe; 2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective: Robin Okey

3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions: Mary Buckley4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': The 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic: Peter Grieder; 5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution?: Tom Junes; 6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest*: László Borhi; 7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s: Holger



Nehring

13. From the 'thirst for change' and 'hunger for truth' to a 'revolution that hardly happened': public protests and reconstructions: Nikolai Vukov Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy: James Krapfl; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the 'Gorbachev phenomenon', the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the Ger