The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History (Hardcover)

Introduction: Preliminaries

Vladimir Tismaneanu
Rethinking 1989

Part One: Memories and Legacies of 1989

Gale Stokes
Purposes of the Past

Agnes Heller
Twenty Years After 1989

Karol Edward Sołtan
Moderate Modernity and the Spirit of 1989

Konrad H. Jarausch
People Power? Towards a Historical Explanation of 1989

Cornel Ban
Was 1989 the End of Social Democracy?

Part Two: Moving Away from the Cold War

Mark Kramer
The Demise of the Soviet Bloc

Vladislav Zubok
Gorbachev and the Road to 1989

Jeffrey Herf
Success Was Not an Orphan: The Battle of the Euromissiles in 1983 and the Events of 1989?1991

A. Ross Johnson
"No One is Afraid to Talk to Us Anymore." Radio Free Europe in 1989

Part Three: Eastern Europe in 1989

Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob
Revisiting the Nature and Legacies of the Ceau?escu Regime

Nick Miller
Where Was the Serbian Havel?

C?t?lin Avramescu
Communism and the Experience of Light Electrification and Legitimization in USSR and Romania before 1989

Bradley Abrams
Buying Time: Consumption and Political Legitimization in Late-Communist Czechoslovakia

Ioan T. Morar and David Morar
The Second Hat: Romanian Media-Mass from Party Loudspeaker to the Voice of the Oligarchs

Part Four: Aftermaths of Extraordinary Times

Noemi Marin
Totalitarian Discourse and Ceau?escu's Loss of Words: Memorializing Rhetoric in 1989 Romania

Marci Shore
"A Spectre is Haunting Europe. . .": Dissidents, Intellectuals and a New Generation

Lavinia Stan
Memory, Justice and Democratization in Post-Communism

A. James McAdams
Transitional Justice and the Politicization of Memory in post-1989 Europe

Tom Gallagher
Incredible Voyage: Romania's Communist Speculators Adapt and Survive After 1989

Peter Voitsekhovsky
In the Footsteps of 1989: Ukraine's "Orange Revolution" as a Carnival of Antipolitics

Jeffrey C. Isaac
Conclusion: Shades of Gray: Revisiting the Meanings of 1989

List of Contributors