Designed for student research, this one-stop resource contains a wealth of information, reference material, and analysis of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union. Combining narrative description, analytical essays,...
Understanding the Collapse of Communism in Poland, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and the Soviet Union "Until 1989, the people of Eastern Europe lived under Communism’s totalitarian grip. They lacked...
From the CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES series, illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and artwork, a look at the events leading up to the collapse of communism, the reasons...
As a result of the disintegration, many peripheral wars have ensued. This book looks at the transformation of politics throughout the world as new military and economic alliances were established after the Soviet Union_s breakup.
The Collapse of Communism in the USSR: Its Causes and Significance
In this second edition, now appropriately subtitled Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe, Stokes not only has revised these portions of the book in the light of recent scholarship, but has added three new chapters covering the post ...
Footsteps from the Finland Station: Five Landmarks in the Collapse of Communism
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The volume is an attempt to assess the meanings of 1989, in particular the multiple transformation processes and their effects in Eastern Europe. Obviously, the realities of the post-communist transformations have not met the expectations.
This book examines the pedicament of Western Communist Parties faced with the impact of reforms in the Soviet Union initiated by Grobachev, the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the...