1989 Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
by Krishan Kumar
"With
thoroughness and insight, Kumar scans the vast canvas of the slow and relentless
implosion of the communist system, and presents his investigation with exemplary
clarity and elegance. This achievement will be difficult to match, and all further
trials to grasp the logic of the seminal events of 1989 would have to engage
with Kumar's though-providing synthesis." - Zygmunt Bauman, University
of Leeds/Warsaw University
In 1989, from East Berlin to Budapest and Bucharest to Moscow, communism was falling. The walls were coming down and the world was being changed in ways that seemed entirely new. The conflict of ideas and ideals that began with the French Revolution of 1789 culminated in these revolutions, which raised the prospect of the "return of Europe" of East and Central European nations, the "restarting of their history," even, for som, the "end of history." What such assertions and aspirations meant, and what the larger events that inspired them mean-not just for the world-are the questions Krishan Kumar explores in 1989.
More books by Krishan Kumar
From
Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: Second Edition
Utopia and Anti-Utopia in
Modern Times
Revolution:
The Theory & Practice of a European Idea
Prophecy
& Progress: The Sociology of Industrial & Post-Industrial Society
Dilemmas
of Liberal Democracies: Studies in Fred Hirsch's Social Limits to Growth
The
Rise of Modern Society: Aspects of the Social & Political Development of
the West
Utopianism
Utopias and the Millennium
Public & Private
in Thought & Practice
The Making of English
National Identity