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Engel and his contributors understandably look at 1989 from the standpoint of the time. Asserting that "the broad story of people power has been told," he seeks to address the "less understood . . . mind-sets and maneuvers of statesmen charged with leading the world's most powerful states as they confronted this unexpected groundswell of popular pleas for change."
The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics -the United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China - viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous event.Jeffrey Engel contributes a chronological narrative of this tumultuous period, followed by substantive essays by Melvyn Leffler on the United States, Chen Jian on China, James Sheehan on Germany and Europe, and William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya on the Soviet Union. These historiansreinterpret the meaning of 1989 in the context of global history in the late 20th and early 21st century and explore such questions as why communism failed in Europe, why China took a different route following the turmoil of Tiananmen Square, and why the peace of 1989 might well proveillusory. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)909.828History and Geography History World history 1800- 1900-1999, 20th centuryLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |