A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989

by Padraic Kenney and Professor Padraic Kenney

Book Overview

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 activity that stirred so crucially, unstoppably, on the street. Melding his experience in Solidarity-era Poland with the sensibility of a historian,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069111627X
• ISBN13: 9780691116273
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"