What is the History of 1989? New Scholarship From East-Central Europe
What is the History of 1989? New Scholarship From East-Central Europe
Author(s): Padraic KenneySubject(s): Civil Society, Political history, Government/Political systems, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010), History of Communism, Post-Communist Transformation, Book-Review
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Political history; Bohdan Horyn; social movements; postwar period; transformation period; postcommunist transformation; transition to democracy; pacifism; 1989 revolution; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia;
Summary/Abstract: The review of: 1) Opozytsiina osobystisf: druha polovyna XX st. Politychnyi portret Bohdana Horynia [An opposition personality in the second half of the twentieth century: a political portrait of Bohdan Horyn’]. By Taras Batenko. Ľviv: Kafvariia, 1997. 350 pp. 2) Polscy Zieloni. Ruch spoleczny w okresie przemian [The Polish Greens: a social movement in the transformation period]. By Piotr Gliński. Warsaw: lnstytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1996. 457 pp. 3) Život v slove a Život slovom. Zjavne a skryté súvislosti slovenského samizdatu [A life in words and a life for words: open and hidden continuities of Slovak samizdat]. By Jolana Kusá, Raisa Kopsová, and František Fundárek. Bratislava: Nadácia Milana Šimečku, 1995. 126 pp. 4) Pacyfizm w Polsce [Pacifism in Poland]. By Wojciech Modzelewski. Warsaw: lnstytut Studiów Politicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1996. 186 pp. 5) Opozice, moc, spoleenost 1969/1989, Příspěvek k dějinám "normalizace” [Opposition, power, and society 1969-1989: a contribution to the history of normalization]. By Milan Otáhal. Prague: Maxdorf, 1994. 123 pp. 6) Svetlo z podzemia. Z kroniky katolíckeho samizdatu 19691989 [Light from the underground: from the history of Catholic samizdat,1969-1989]. By Ján Šimulčfk. Prešov: Vyd. Michala Vaška, 1997. 276 pp. 7) Ugoda i Rewolucja. Wladza i opozycja 1985-1989 [Agreement and revolution: the authorities and the opposition, 1985-1989]. By Jan Skórzyński. Warsaw: Presspublica, 1995. 303 pp. 8) Nedalo se tady dýchat. Ekologie v českých zemích v letech 1968 ai 1989 [One couldn’t breathe here: ecology in the Czech lands, 1968-1989]. By Miroslav Vaněk. Prague: Maxdorf, 1996. 170 pp.
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 13/1999
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 419-431
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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