LEADER 02849nam 22004215 450 001 9910810884303321 005 20230302182050.0 010 $a0-300-25236-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300252361 035 $a(CKB)4100000010555450 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6125965 035 $a(DE-B1597)550805 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300252361 035 $a(OCoLC)1143648851 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010555450 100 $a20200526h20202020 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPost Wall, Post Square $eHow Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World after 1989 /$fKristina Spohr 210 1$aNew Haven, CT :$cYale University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (785 pages) 311 $a0-300-23382-5 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tList of Maps --$tIntroduction --$t1 Reinventing Communism: Russia and China --$t2 Toppling Communism: Poland and Hungary --$t3 Reuniting Germany, Dissolving Eastern Europe --$t4 Securing Germany in the Post-Wall World --$t5 Building a Europe ?Whole and Free? --$t6 ?A New World Order? --$t7 Russian Revolution --$t8 ?Dawn of a New Era? --$t9 Glimpsing a ?Pacific Century? --$tEpilogue --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgements --$tList of Illustrations --$tIndex 330 $aA landmark global history that makes us rethink how the Cold War ended and our present era was born This book offers a bold new interpretation of the revolutions of 1989, showing how a new world order was forged?without major conflict. Based on extensive archival research, Kristina Spohr attributes this in large measure to determined diplomacy by a handful of international leaders, who engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War. She offers a major reappraisal of George H. W. Bush and innovative assessments of Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, as well as Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand. But, she argues, Europe?s transformation must be understood in global context. By contrasting events in Berlin and Moscow with the brutal suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing, the book reveals how Deng Xiaoping pushed through China?s very different Communist reinvention. Here is an authoritative yet highly readable exploration of the crucial hinge years of 1989?1992 and their consequences for today?s world. 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a909.828 700 $aSpohr$b Kristina$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01713432 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810884303321 996 $aPost Wall, Post Square$94106418 997 $aUNINA