Shock Waves

Eastern Europe After the Revolutions

By: John Feffer

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Hardcover | 30 January 2024

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Feffer provides an incisive historical background to the current political and economic conflicts that are dramatically reshaping daily life in Eastern Europe and offers critical and guardedly hopeful speculation about the future of the region. Feffer draws upon hundreds of interviews he has conducted with the region's policymakers, trade unionists, grassroots activists, and scholars.

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Acknowledgements	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Introduction: The Revolutions of 1989	p. 1
The Past as Prologue	p. 9
History and Geography	p. 11
The Soviet Model	p. 33
From above and below	p. 49
After the Revolutions	p. 69
East Germany... a Shortcut to Democracy	p. 71
Poland. . . a Shortcut to Modernity	p. 103
Hungary ... Goulash Ecology	p. 149
Czechoslovakia. . . a Moral Foreign Policy	p. 175
Romania. . . Amoral Domestic Policy	p. 201
Bulgaria. . . the Wrath of Nations	p. 225
Yugoslavia. . . Things Fall Apart	p. 253
Conclusion: Things Come Together	p. 277
Background Statistics	p. 285
References	p. 289
Selected Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 339
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