A Carnival of Revolution : : Central Europe 1989 /

A Carnival of Revolution : : Central Europe 1989 / / Padraic Kenney.

This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Kenney, Padraic,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]
©2003
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 halftones. 4 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • INTRODUCTION Street Theater, Concrete Poetry
  • PART ONE: ACTORS, STAGES, REPERTOIRES
  • CHAPTER ONE Eating the Crocodile with a Spoon, or, A Career Guide to the Underground
  • CHAPTER TWO Come With Us! They Aren't Beating Today! The Art of the Blizzard
  • CHAPTER THREE As If in Europe: The International World of Peace and Human Rights
  • CHAPTER FOUR The New Politics of the Konkretny Generation
  • CHAPTER FIVE How the Smurfs Captured Gargamel, or, A Revolution of Style
  • PHOTOESSAY: PHOTOGRAPHING THE CARNIVAL
  • PART TWO: A REVOLUTION IN SIXTEEN SCENES
  • SCENE ONE: "I Blink, and I See Another World": The Candlelight March
  • SCENE TWO: A Tale of Two Lenins
  • SCENE THREE: Slovene Spring
  • SCENE FOUR: Days That Shook Lviv
  • SCENE FIVE: Strikes in Shades of Orange
  • SCENE SIX: An Invasion Remembered
  • SCENE SEVEN: WaterDam/ned: Hungary Defends the Danube
  • SCENE EIGHT: Independence Day and Palach Week
  • SCENE NINE: Encircling the Round Table
  • SCENE TEN: Mothers and Children
  • SCENE ELEVEN: On the Fourth of June
  • SCENE TWELVE: Hungarians Bury the Communists
  • SCENE THIRTEEN: Korzos and Road Races
  • SCENE FOURTEEN: Lviv Passes the Baton
  • SCENE FIFTEEN: The Mosquito and the Messedemos
  • SCENE SIXTEEN: Bring a Flower with You! The Velvet Revolution
  • EPILOGUE No More Picnics, After the Revolution
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index

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