The end and the beginning [[electronic resource] ] : the revolutions of 1989 and the resurgence of history / / edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu with Bogdan C. Iacob

• Pubblicazione: Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (603 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.0009/048
• Soggetto topico: Revolutions - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century; Revolutions - Communist countries - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Romania History Revolution, 1989 Congresses; Europe, Eastern History 1989- Congresses
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: TismaneanuVladimir IacobBogdan
• Note generali: Includes papers of the conference "The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History" held November 9-10, 2009 at the University of Maryland.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Rethinking 1989 / Vladimir Tismaneanu -- Memories and legacies of 1989. Purposes of the past / Gale Stokes ; Years after 1989 / Agnes Heller ; Moderate modernity and the spirit of 1989 / Karol Edward Soltan ; People power? towards a historical explanation of 1989 / Konrad H. Jarausch ; Was 1989 the end of social democracy? / Cornel Ban -- Moving away from the Cold War. The demise of the Soviet bloc / Mark Kramer ; Gorbachev and the road to 1989 / Vladislav Zubok ; Success was not an orphan: the battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the events of 1989 - 1991 / Jeffrey Herf ; "No one is afraid to talk to us anymore": Radio Free Europe in 1989 / A. Ross Johnson -- Eastern Europe in 1989. Communism and nationalism before and after 1989 / Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob ; Where was the Serbian Havel? / Nick Miller ; Communism and the experience of light electrification and legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989 / Catalin Avramescu ; Buying time: consumption and political legitimization in late-Communist Czechoslovakia / Bradley Abrams ; The second hat: Romanian media-mass from party loudspeaker to the voice of the oligarchs / Ioan T. Morar and David Morar -- Aftermaths of extraordinary times. Totalitarian discourse and Ceausescu's loss of words: memorializing rhetoric in 1989 Romania / Noemi Marin ; "A spectre is haunting Europe": dissidents, intellectuals and a new generation / Marci Shore ; Memory, justice and democratization in post-Communism / Lavinia Stan ; Transitional justice and the politicization of memory in post-1989 Europe / A. James Mcadams ; Incredible voyage: Romania's Communist speculators adapt and survive after 1989 / Tom Gallagher ; In the footsteps of 1989: Ukraine's "orange revolution" as a carnival of antipolitics / Peter Voitsekhovsky ; Conclusion: shades of gray: revisiting the meanings of 1989 / Jeffrey C. Isaac.
• Titolo autorizzato: The end and the beginning
• ISBN: 978-615-5053-67-2; 615-5053-67-7; 1-283-59405-6; 9786613906502
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910452885703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II