1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution
Paweł Ukielski, "1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution "
English | ISBN: 3031641272 | 2024 | 207 pages | EPUB, PDF | 982 KB + 6 MB
English | ISBN: 3031641272 | 2024 | 207 pages | EPUB, PDF | 982 KB + 6 MB
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.