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Lädt ... There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism (2009. Auflage)von Constantine Pleshakov
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A lot of this is familiar ground... But [Pleshakov offers] new vantages on the 1989 revolutions, alternating accounts of protests on the streets of East Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, and other Eastern-bloc capitals with deliberations behind the scenes in Moscow and Washington from sources unavailable to earlier chroniclers. His study, which is the richest in local detail, lives up to his description of it as an "exploration of how 1989 looks when it's seen more as a domestic matter, in the light of civil conflict, rather than in the grand geopolitical terms that have come to define the conventional account." Pleshakov isn't denying the existence of civil society. Instead, he challenges the notion that Central Europe was always a hotbed of anti-Communist activity, from the end of the war to the fall of the wall... But Pleshakov goes too far in implying that the civil war over communism was somehow unique to Poland, or that no one else was much interested in freedom so long as they had enough bread.
"In There Is No Freedom Without Bread!, the Russian-born historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a daring revisionist account of 1989 and the revolutions that took place during that momentous year." "The conventional story of the end of the cold war focuses on the geopolitical power struggle between the United States and the USSR: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent the USSR, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. But in fact, Pleshakov reveals, the uprising was more complex than the archetypal image of the "good" masses overthrowing the "bad" puppet regimes of the Soviet empire. Politicking, severe tensions between Moscow and local Communist governments, compromise between the revolutionary leaders and the Communist old-timers, the quagmire of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan, and the will and anger of the people - all had a profound influence in shaping the revolutions as multifaceted movements that brought about one of the greatest transformations in history." "In a dramatic narrative culminating in a close examination of the whirlwind year, Pleshakov challenges the received wisdom and argues that 1989 was as much about national civil wars and internal struggles for power as it was about Eastern Europeans throwing off the yoke of Moscow."--BOOK JACKET. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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