1989 : a global history of Eastern Europe / James Mark, University of Exeter, Bogdan C. Iacob, University of Exeter, Tobias Rupprecht, University of Exeter, Ljubica Spaskovska, University of Exeter.

"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 g...

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