The walls came tumbling down: the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe Stokes

Title

• The walls came tumbling down : the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe / Gale Stokes.

Author

• Stokes, Gale, 1933-

Published

• New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993.

Content Types

• text

Carrier Types

• volume

Physical Description

• viii, 319 p. ; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Demokratisierung.
• Politischer Wandel.
• Staatssozialismus.
• Zusammenbruch.
• Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.
• Eastern Europe -- History -- 1945-
• Communism -- Eastern Europe.
• Communisme.
• Verval (geschiedenis)
• Communisme -- Europe de l'Est -- 1970-2000.
• Osteuropa.
• Europe de l'Est -- 1989-
• Europe, Eastern.
• Europe de l'Est -- Histoire -- 1945-
• Ostblock.
• Europe de l'Est -- 1945-1989.
• Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945-
• Political change
• History
• Poland
• Hungary
• Yugoslavia
• Czechoslovakia
• International comparisons
• Overseas item
• Europe, Eastern
• Communism
• Social conditions
• 1945-
• Eastern Europe

Summary

• Looks at the forces that helped defeat communism in Eastern Europe, including Solidarity and Charter 77, a group of Czech intellectuals who demanded that their government obey its own laws.

Contents

• The new opposition : antipolitics and solidarity
• The gang of four and their nemesis
• The momentum of change in Hungary
• Solidarity : the return of the repressed in Poland
• The glorious revolutions of 1989
• 1990 and 1991 : the first two years of a long time
• The devil's finger : the disintegration of Yugoslavia
• Epilogue and prologue : the new pluralism.

Notes

• Includes index and bibliographical notes.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language

• English