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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 to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region's links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era's other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in triumphalist histories of market liberalism.

This volume examines the 20-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. It brings together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions

The author began working in Eastern Europe in connection with his project to study the impact of U.S. constitutionalism following the U.S. constitutional bicentennial in 1987. This led him to organize a conference on constitutionalism in Eastern Europe in 1990 and to collaborate in projects on the progress of constitutionalism in the region since that time. The question the author addresses is whether the constitutional promise apparent in 1989 and following has been fulfilled two decades later.

First published in 1997, this collection of articles and essays analyses the political economy of reform and change in Eastern Europe during the years of Gorbachev's perestroika and the years immediately following the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Written by Polish economist Jan Winiecki, between 1984 and 1996, this work explores the issue of the feasibility of reform and change during the period of decline and collapse of communist economic order and, later, the emergence of the capitalist economic order in the post-communist Eastern Europe

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part One POLITICS OF MEMORY AND CONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY -- European Mass Killing and European Commemoration -- Why World War II Memories Remain So Troubled in Europe and East Asi -- Post-Authoritarian Memories in Europe and Latin America -- Divided Memory Revisited: The Nazi Past in West Germany and in Postwar Palestine -- On the Relationship Between Politics of Memory and the State's Attitude toward the Communist Past -- Part Two HISTORIES AND THEIR PUBLICS -- Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice -- Promotion of a Usable Past: Official Efforts to Rewrite Russo-Soviet History, 2000-2014 -- Germany's Two Processes of "Coming to Terms with the Past" -Failures, After All? -- Part Three SEARCHING FOR CLOSURE IN DEMOCRATIZING SOCIETIES -- Twenty-Five Years "After" -- The Ambivalence of Settling Accounts with Communism: The Polish Case -- The Romanian Revolution in Court: What Narratives About 1989? -- Slobodan Milošević in the Hague: Failed Success of a Historical Trial -- The South African Transition: Then and Now -- Scholarship and Public Memory: The Presidential Commissionfor the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania(PCACDR) -- Moldova under the Soviet Communist Regime: History and Memory -- Part Four COMPETING NARRATIVES OF TROUBLED PASTS -- Coming to Terms with Catholic-Jewish Relations in the Polish Catholic Church -- After Communism: Identity and Morality in the Baltic Countries -- The Romanian Communist Past and the Entrapment of Polemics -- Past Intransient/Transiting Past: Remembering the Victims and the Representation of Communist Past in Bulgaria -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One: Going Beyond Post-Communist Studies -- Post-Communist Studies and Democratic Consolidation -- Paradigms in Communist Studies -- Democratic Consolidation -- Democratic Consolidation's Research Agenda -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter Two: The Study of Post-Communist Politics -- Stateness -- Democracy and the Market -- Bringing the State In -- Strategic Choice and Post-Communist Studies -- Path Dependency and Post-Communist Studies -- Institutionalism and Post-Communist Studies

Edited by two of the world's leading analysts of post communist politics, this book brings together distinguished specialists on Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Serbia/Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria, and Romania. The authors analyse the challenge of building democracy in the countries of the former Yugoslavia riven by conflict, and in neighboring states. They focus on oppositional activity, political cultures that often favour strong presidentialism, the role of nationalism, and basic socioeconomic trends. Karen Dawisha and Bruce Parrott provide theoretical and comparative chapters on post communist political development across the region. This book will provide students and scholars with detailed analysis by leading authorities, plus the latest research data on recent political and economic developments in each country

The revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe were the result of communism's economic & moral failures. While the former had been well understood & studied for a long time, the latter, because they were difficult to measure or even grasp, were not. For that reason, the revolutions of 1989 were quite unexpected. It is suggested that most fashionable social science theories about revolution, which have been almost entirely based on materialistic theories & on class analysis, have been missing a key aspect of all revolutionary situations, ie, moral outrage. Modified AA