1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte
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1989 explores the momentous events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the effects they have had on our world ever since. Based on documents, interviews, and television broadcasts from Washington, London, Paris, Bonn, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, and a dozen other locations, 1989 describes how Germany unified, NATO expansion began, and Russia got left on the periphery of the new Europe. This updated edition contains a new afterword with the most recent evidence on the 1990 origins of NATO's show more post-Cold War expansion. show lessTags
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No whiff of the personal contaminates Mary Elise Sarotte’s scrupulous account of the high politics and diplomacy of 1989. With remarkable diligence, she has interviewed almost all the surviving participants, and quarried government archives and other libraries for documents that illustrate the decision-making (and lack of it) that year. The result is a tale of hypocrisy and indecision in show more high places. show less
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Mary Elise Sarotte is Dean's Professor of History at the University of Southern California. A former White House Fellow, Humboldt Scholar, and journalist, she is the author of the prize-winning 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe, also a Financial Times Book of the Year.
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- Canonical title
- 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
- Original publication date
- 2009
- Important places
- USSR
- Important events
- Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 [1989]
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- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
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