Taking Stock of Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

by Kristen Ghodsee, Mitchell Orenstein, Kristen R. Ghodsee

Book Overview

Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally planned workers' states to liberal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197549241
• ISBN13: 9780197549247
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"