Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles)

by Stephen Kotkin

Jan Gross

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Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies–East Germany, Romania, and Poland–to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a...Read more
  • ISBN10 0679642765
  • ISBN13 9780679642763
  • Publish Date 15 December 2009 (first published 6 October 2009)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 19 May 2017
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Modern Library
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English