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1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End

2009-12-08 History
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Book Synopsis 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End by : Padraic Kenney

Download or read book 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End written by Padraic Kenney. This book was released on 2009-12-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of democratic transformations in the 1980s ended the cold war and ushered in the present era. This volume by Padraic Kenney uses six case studies from this period — Poland, the Philippines, Chile, South Africa, Ukraine, and China — to explore common characteristics of global political change while highlighting the differing strategies and perspectives of the people who sought to free themselves from dictatorship. A general introduction to the volume examines key trends in the decades leading up to the changes, tracing the paths that dictatorships and opposition movements took in their fateful confrontations. The first chapter with documents surveys the central ideas of this age of democratic, nonviolent revolution, and sets a framework for considering the case studies in the chapters that follow.

Ways of the World V2 + 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End + Japanese Discovery of America + Slavery, Freedom, and Law in the Atlantic World

2012-03-08 History
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Book Synopsis Ways of the World V2 + 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End + Japanese Discovery of America + Slavery, Freedom, and Law in the Atlantic World by : Robert W. Strayer

Download or read book Ways of the World V2 + 1989: Democratic Revolutions at the Cold War's End + Japanese Discovery of America + Slavery, Freedom, and Law in the Atlantic World written by Robert W. Strayer. This book was released on 2012-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Cold War

2010-08-13 Political Science
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Release : 2010-08-13
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis The New Cold War by : Mark Mackinnon

Download or read book The New Cold War written by Mark Mackinnon. This book was released on 2010-08-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intrepid investigation into the pro-democracy movements that have reshaped the Eastern bloc since 2000, reopening the Kremlin’s wounds from the Cold War. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Soviet Union collapsed two years later, liberal democracy was supposed to fill the void left by Soviet communism. Poland and Czechoslovakia made the best of reforms, but the citizens of the “Evil Empire” itself saw little of the promised freedom, and more of the same old despots and corruption. Recently, a second wave of reforms–Serbia in 2000, Georgia in 2003 and Ukraine in 2004, as well as Kyrgyzstan’s regime change in 2005 – have proven almost as monumental as those in Berlin and Moscow. The people of the Eastern bloc, aided in no small part by Western money and advice, are again rising up and demanding an end to autocracy. And once more, the Kremlin is battling the White House every step of the way. Mark MacKinnon spent these years working in Moscow, and his view of the story and access to those involved remains unparalleled. With The New Cold War, he reveals the links between these democratic revolutions – and the idealistic American billionaire behind them–in a major investigation into the forces that are quietly reshaping the post- Soviet world.

The End and the Beginning

2012-05-15 History
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Release : 2012-05-15
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Book Synopsis The End and the Beginning by : Vladimir Tismaneanu

Download or read book The End and the Beginning written by Vladimir Tismaneanu. This book was released on 2012-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh interpretation of the contexts, meanings, and consequences of the revolutions of 1989, coupled with state of the art reassessment of the significance and consequences of the events associated with the demise of communist regimes. The book provides an analysis that takes into account the complexities of the Soviet bloc, the events? impact upon Europe, and their re-interpretation within a larger global context. Departs from static ways of analysis (events and their significance) bringing forth approaches that deal with both pre-1989 developments and the 1989 context itself, while extensively discussing the ways of resituating 1989 in the larger context of the 20th century and of its lessons for the 21st. Emphasizes the possibility for re-thinking and re-visiting the filters and means that scholars use to interpret such turning point. The editors perceive the present project as a challenge to existing readings on the complex set of issues and topics presupposed by a re-evaluation of 1989 as a symbol of the change and transition from authoritarianism to democracy.

Turning Points in Ending the Cold War

2013-09-01 Political Science
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Release : 2013-09-01
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Book Synopsis Turning Points in Ending the Cold War by : Kiron K. Skinner

Download or read book Turning Points in Ending the Cold War written by Kiron K. Skinner. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expert contributors examine the end of détente and the beginning of the new phase of the cold war in the early 1980s, Reagan's radical new strategies aimed at changing Soviet behavior, the peaceful democratic revolutions in Poland and Hungary, the events that brought about the reunification of Germany, the role of events in Third World countries, the critical contributions of Gorbachev and Yeltsin, and more.

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