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Ihmisten Vuosi 1989 (2009)

by Michael Meyer(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Karisto

review 1: Concise, personal description of the events in the soviet bloc of eastern Europe in 1989, from Jaruzelski in Poland un-banning Solidarity, to the Velvet Revolution in Prague, to the kangaroo-court murder of the Ceausescu's in Romania. Some repetition, clumsy foreshadowing, and written by an american journalist for an american readership, but I still found it an exciting, readable history of that amazing year. Meyer was European correspondent for the news magazine Newsweek, which meant he was travelling all over Eastern Europe, with leaders taking time out from propping up communism, or undermining it, to give interviews to the important US press. P.S. I didn't know that Dick Cheney has been promoting War since 1988: "Don't trust Gorbachev, it's just a trick to get us to lo... morewer our guard" !
review 2: I found this book to be extremely interesting. I might have given it 5 stars except for the author's political sniping at the beginning, and again at the end. Through the crystal clear lens of hindsight American leaders were seen to have failed to understand the events as they unfolded, and were therefore buffoons. If eastern European communist leaders right in the middle of the same events also failed to understand they were given a pass. If only Michael Dukakis hadn't worn that silly tank uniform things would have turned far better. Despite my obvious annoyance with the political sniping the actual story was still good enough for 4 stars. less

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