Article(print)#12009
The Suicide of the East? 1989 and the Fall of Communism
In: Foreign affairs, Volume 88, Issue 6, p. 130-140
ISSN: 0015-7120
Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story. The story these books tell is more of a civil war within the elite than of a revolt from below. But in concentrating on communism's failings, they neglect the West's struggle to revive capitalism. Adapted from the source document.