The Long 1989

Kyrill Kunakhovich, Piotr H. Kosicki (eds)

Title: The Long 1989
Subtitle: Decades of Global Revolution
Editors: Kyrill Kunakhovich; Piotr H. Kosicki
Price: € 134,00 excl. VAT
ISBN: 9789633862834
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 296
Language: English
Publication date: 14 - 08 - 2019
Dimensions: 15.9 x 23.4 cm
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Discipline: Social and Political Sciences
Imprint: CEU Press
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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

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.

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