The Walls Came Tumbling Down Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe
ISBN: 9780199732630 | 0199732639
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 9/14/2011
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Beginning with the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and culminatingin the 1989-1991 revolutions, The Walls Came Tumbling Down is a sweeping, vividnarrative of the gradual collapse of Eastern European communism. Focusing on thedecades of unrest that precipitated 1989's tumultuous events, and includinginformation obtained firsthand from personal interviews, Gale Stokes provides acomprehensive history of the various communist regimes and the oppositionmovements that brought them down, including the "March Days" and SolidarityMovement of Pola... MORE
| Maps | p. ix |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The New Opposition: Antipolitics and Solidarity | p. 15 |
| The Gang of Four and Their Nemesis | p. 57 |
| The Momentum of Change in Hungary | p. 95 |
| Solidarity: The Return of the Repressed in Poland | p. 123 |
| The Glorious Revolutions of 1989 | ... MORE |
| The Devil's Finger: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia | p. 203 |
| The New European Order | p. 243 |
| Central Europe on the Move | p. 269 |
| Southeastern Europe: A Glass Half Empty | p. 306 |
| Epilogue: Pluralism, the New Reality | p. 343 |
| Index | p. 351 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
Gale Stokes is past Dean of Humanities, Chair of the History Department, and a three time winner of the George R. Brown Award for Superior Teaching at Rice University. He is the author of several books, including From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentor History of Eastern Europe Since 1945, Second Edition, (OUP, 1996) and Three Eras of Political Change in Eastern Europe (OUP, 1996).
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