Kyrill Kunakhovich
Kyrill Kunakhovich is Assistant Professor of History, University of Virginia.
Kyrill Kunakhovich, Piotr H. Kosicki (eds)
The Long 1989
Decades of Global Revolution
The fall of communism in Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. Even thirty years on, 1989 still figures as a guide and motivation for political change. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a "world event," but the chapters in this volume show how it actually became one.
The authors of these nine essays consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and concepts that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All nine chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation through which foreign affairs found new meanings on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 1989 in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, this volume asks how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the world, proposing a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution and protest.
Editors
Piotr H. Kosicki
Piotr H. Kosicki is Assistant Professor of History, University of Maryland.
- Title
- The Long 1989
- Subtitle
- Decades of Global Revolution
- Editors
- Kyrill Kunakhovich
- Piotr H. Kosicki
- Price
- € 133,99
- ISBN
- 9789633862841
- Format
- eBook PDF (Adobe DRM)
- Number of pages
- 296
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 14 - 08 - 2019
- Category
- Sociology and Social History
- Discipline
- Social and Political Sciences
- Imprint
- CEU Press
- Also available as
- Hardback - € 134,00
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich
Part One: Politics and Policies
1. 1989 Compared and Connected: The Demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa
Adrian Guelke and Tom Junes
2. Islam as Ideology and Tactic: Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan
Věra Exnerová
3. European Lessons for China: Tiananmen 1989 and Beyond
Martin K. Dimitrov
Part Two: Ideas and Ideologies
4. Dialogical Democracy: King, Michnik, and the American Culture Wars
Jeffrey Stout
5. The Virtue of Not Inventing Anything
István Rév
6. The Rule of Law after the Short Twentieth Century: Launching a Global Career
Martin Krygier
Part Three: Myths and Mythmaking
7. Catalyst of History: Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the Legacies of 1989 in the Middle East
Samuel Helfont
8. Social Movement vs. Social Arrest: The Global Occupations of the Twenty-first Century
Mehmet Döşemeci
9. Euromaidan and the 1989 Legacy: Solidarity in Action?
Valeria Korablyova
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
