From Revolution to Uncertainty: The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe. Edited by Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Stanislav Holubec
U zborniku objavljenom 2019. godine nalaze se, među ostalima, i članci Marka Zajca “When the Slovenian Spring turned into a Hot Summer” i Marie Janine Calic “1990: Building Democracy in Yugoslavia and the Danger of War”.
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From Revolution to Uncertainty: The Year 1990 in Central and Eastern Europe
Edited by Joachim von Puttkamer, Włodzimierz Borodziej and Stanislav Holubec
Book Description
Throughout Eastern Europe, the unexpected and irrevocable fall of communism that began in the late 1980s presented enormous challenges in the spheres of politics and society, as well as at the level of individual experience. Excitement, uncertainty, and fear predicated the shaping of a new order, the outcome of which was anything but predetermined.
Recent studies have focused on the ambivalent impact of capitalism. Yet, at the time, parliamentary democracy had equally few traditions to return to, and membership in the European Union was a distant dream at best. Nowadays, as new threats arise, Europe’s current political crises prompt us to reconsider how liberal democracy in Eastern Europe came about in the first place.
This book undertakes an analysis of the year 1990 in several countries throughout Europe to consider the role of uncertainty and change in shaping political nations.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Joachim von Puttkamer, Stanislav Holubec and Włodzimierz Borodziej
Chapter 1
Groping in the Dark: Expectations and Predictions 1988–1991
Philipp Ther
Chapter 2
Catalysts of the Collapse and of the Transition, 1989–1990
Mary Elise Sarotte
Chapter 3
Poland and the Collapse of the Patron in 1989–90: As seen from the Polish Embassy in Moscow
Włodzimierz Borodziej
Chapter 4
Tea with the Primate: At the Roots of Political Conflict in Poland
Joachim von Puttkamer
Chapter 5
Czechoslovakia’s Year of Decision: From the Socialist Revolution of 1989 to the ‘Real’ Revolution of 1990
James Krapfl
Chapter 6
‘Talkin’ bout a Revolution’: On the Social Memory of 1989 in Hungary
Éva Kovács
Chapter 7
A Transition to What and Whose Democracy? 1990 in Bulgaria and Romania
Bogdan C. Iacob
Chapter 8
When the Slovenian Spring turned into a Hot Summer
Marko Zajc
Chapter 9
1990: Building Democracy in Yugoslavia and the Danger of War
Marie Janine Calic
Chapter 10
Transforming Industry: On the Corporate Origins of Post-Socialist Nostalgia in Poland
Joanna Wawrzyniak
Chapter 11
German Reunification and the Dynamics of Migration
Tim Schanetzky
Chapter 12
The Party is Over: The Identities and Biographies of Czechoslovak and East German (Post)communists in the Year 1990
Stanislav Holubec
Chapter 13
Poland, the German Question, and German Unification, 1989–1991
Włodzimierz Borodziej
Chapter 14
The German Question and its European Solution
Wilfried Loth
Index
Editor(s)
Biography
Włodzimierz Borodziej is professor of History at Warsaw University, Stanislav Holubec is a researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Joachim von Puttkamer is professor of Eastern European History at Jena University and co-director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg.
Published June 6, 2019 by Routledge
274 Pages