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Wolfgang MUELLER - Michael GEHLER - Arnold SUPPAN (eds.)

The of 1989. A Handbook

ISBN 978-3-7001-7638-1 Print Edition

Internationale Geschichte 2 2014, 705 Seiten, 24x17 cm, Karton

€ 75,00

Only a few people foresaw the sudden and momentous events of 1989: within months the seemingly unshakable communist regimes of Eastern were washed away and with them the postwar international order. This book gives an overview over the national revolutions and external reactions. It contains chapters on the revolutions in all major countries of the former communist bloc as well as on the responses of all major international Wolfgang MUELLER players. The first part examines the events – from is deputy director of the Institute above and from below – in as well as and of Modern and Contemporary their backgrounds. The second part deals with Soviet and Historical Research at the Western perceptions and responses. The third part focuses on Austrian of Sciences in the aftermath of the revolutions, on societal transformations, the acceptance of the new Central European to NATO and the EU, and on the memory of 1989. Michael GEHLER is director of the Institute of “By far the best collective work on this topic … This book will be Modern and Contemporary unique, and is much needed – at a time when social scientists Historical Research at the continue to strive to understand the ‘Arab revolutions’. We get in- Austrian Academy of Sciences in depth analysis and diversity of the assessments.” Vienna Pierre Grosser

Arnold SUPPAN is former professor for the History of Eastern Europe at the University of Vienna

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Austrian Academy of Sciences Press A-1011 Wien, Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2 Tel. +43-1-515 81/DW 3402-3406, +43-1-512 9050, Fax +43-1-515 81/DW 3400 http://verlag.oeaw.ac.at, e-mail: [email protected] Contents: REVOLUTIONS: Gorbachev and the “New Thinking” (A. Grachev) – 1989 (K. Bachmann) – 1989 (A. Oplatka) – The “Incident” (P. Vamos) – The in East (H. H. Hertle) – in 1989 (J. Suk) – Yugoslavia 1989 (F. Bieber and A. Galijaš) – The End of Communist Rule in Bulga (U. Brunnbauer) – The (A. U. Gabanyi) –The “” in the Baltic Republics (K. Brüggemann) REACTIONS: The (N. M. Naimark) – The USSR (E. Zadorozhnyuk) – US Strategic Planning (Ph. Zeliko – The Reunification of Germany (A. von Plato) – The USSR and Germany (W. Mueller) – Margaret and 1989 Larres) – and 1989 (G. Saunier) – and 1989 (A. Varsori) – and Eastern Europe (A. Suppan) – Aus and 1989 (M. Gehler) AFTERMATH: Societal Transformations (D. Segert) – Remembering 1989 (L. Deyanova) – The “Archival Revolution” Prozumenshchikov) – NATO Enlargement (S. R. Sloan) – EU Enlargement (J. O’Brennan) – Epochal Changes (H. Mö – Chronology

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