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Record Nr.

UNINA9910879578603321

Autore

Ukielski Paweł

Titolo

1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution / / by Paweł Ukielski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

9783031641282

3031641280

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 pages)

Collana

Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations, , 2947-7999

Disciplina

320.09

Soggetti

World politics

Political science

Comparative government

Russia - History

Europe, Eastern - History

Soviet Union - History

International relations

Political History

Political Science

Comparative Politics

Russian, Soviet, and East European History

International Relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

INTRODUCTION  -- PART ONE – THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter I: Revolution. Theoretical foundations -- Chapter II: Counterrevolution. Theoretical foundations -- PART TWO – INTRODUCTION OF COMMUNISM -- Chapter III: Revolution in Russia and unsuccessful world revolution -- Chapter IV: Introduction of Communism in Central Europe after 1944. Export of revolution -- PART THREE – THE FALL OF COMMUNISM IN CENTRAL EUROPE IN 1989 -- Chapter V: Global factors -- Chapter VI: Poland -- Chapter VII: Hungary -- Chapter VIII: GDR -- Chapter IX: Czechoslovakia -- Chapter X:



Bulgaria -- Chapter XI: Romania -- CONCLUSIONS -- Chapter XII: Central Europe in 1989 – in search of general theory.

Sommario/riassunto

The literature on the fall of communism contains numerous interpretations of the changes that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, while debates about how best to characterize the fall of the communist regimes have raged for many years. Researchers continue to ponder and argue over how ‘revolutionary’, as opposed to ‘evolutionary’ (or ‘reformatory’) these changes were. In this new study, author Paweł Ukielski proposes the term ‘counterrevolution’ to describe the historical process that took place and uses it as an analytical construct to better understand the crisis of Soviet communism and the subsequent transitions that took place. Paweł Ukielski Ph. D. is a political scientist, historian and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences. .