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 t...

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