The Long 1989 : : Decades of Global Revolution / / ed. by Piotr H. Kosicki, Kyrill Kunakhovich.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Dimitrov, Martin K.,; Döşemeci, Mehmet,; Exnerová, Věra,; Guelke, Adrian,; Helfont, Samuel,; Junes, Tom,; Korablyova, Valeria,; Kosicki, Piotr H.,; Krygier, Martin,; Kunakhovich, Kyrill,; Rév, István,; Stout, Jeffrey,
• HerausgeberIn: Kosicki, Piotr H.,; Kunakhovich, Kyrill,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one. The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All nine chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation through which foreign affairs found new meanings on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 1989 in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, this volume asks how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the world, proposing a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution and protest.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: POLITICS AND POLICIES -- CHAPTER 1 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa -- CHAPTER 2 Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 3 European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and Beyond -- PART TWO: IDEAS AND IDEOLOGIES -- CHAPTER 4 Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture Wars -- CHAPTER 5 The Virtue of Not Inventing Anything -- CHAPTER 6 The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global Career -- PART THREE: MYTHS AND MYTHMAKING -- CHAPTER 7 Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle East -- CHAPTER 8 Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first Century -- CHAPTER 9 Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action? -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index