1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe

by James Mark, Tobias Rupprecht, Ljubica Spaskovska, et al.

Book Overview

The collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with '1989' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108447147
• ISBN13: 9781108447140
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"