{"id":55259,"date":"2026-09-11T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55259"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T09:59:25","slug":"1989-in-central-europe-a-counterrevolution-pawel-ukielski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55259","title":{"rendered":"\u201e1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution\u201c &#8211; Pawe\u0142 Ukielski"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The literature on the fall of communism contains numerous interpretations of the changes that took place in Central and Eastern Europe in 1989, while debates about how best to characterize the fall of the communist regimes have raged for many years. Researchers continue to ponder and argue over how \u2018revolutionary\u2019, as opposed to \u2018evolutionary\u2019 (or \u2018reformatory\u2019) these changes were. In this new study, author Pawe\u0142 Ukielski proposes the term \u2018counterrevolution\u2019 to describe the historical process that took place and uses it as an analytical construct to better understand the crisis of Soviet communism and the subsequent transitions that took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Biography&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pawe\u0142 Ukielski<\/strong> Ph. D. is a political scientist, historian and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution\u2019 by Pawe\u0142 Ukielski offers a thoughtful, provocative and well-crafted contribution to our understanding of that eventful year in Central Europe. For historians, political scientists, and students of transition, this volume will be both timely and relevant. It provides a solid basis for further debate, invites researchers to reassess familiar narratives of 1989, and offers a framework that may be tested, critiqued, and extended.\u201d (Micha\u0142 Przeperski, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, January 22, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Published in August 2024<br>ISBN 978-3-031-64127-5<br>188p<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-64128-2\">https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-031-64128-2<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":55260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":"\u201e1989 in Central Europe: A Counterrevolution\u201c - Pawe\u0142 Ukielski"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1989-in-Central-Europe.webp?fit=827%2C1168&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54517,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54517","url_meta":{"origin":55259,"position":0},"title":"CfP: Entangled Transformations: Temporalities, Experiences, and Critical Histories of Postsocialist Change in Europe","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"8. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"International Workshop organised by the Department of History, University of Warsaw and the Department of Public History, FernUniversit\u00e4t in Hagen Often framed within the triumphalist narrative, most prominently articulated in the \u201cend of history\u201d concept (Fukuyama, 1989), transformations that reshaped the socialist states in Europe in the late twentieth century\u2026","rel":"","context":"U &quot;Novosti&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Novosti","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/hsozkult.png?fit=1006%2C241&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":55062,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55062","url_meta":{"origin":55259,"position":1},"title":"CfP: The Making of Solidarity: A\u00a0Conference on Eastern and Central European Dissidents, 1945-1991","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This open call invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on Eastern and Central European dissidence, solidarity, and anti-imperial thought. 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