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Revolution 1989: The Fall Of The Soviet Empire (2009)

by Victor Sebestyen(Favorite Author)

4.27 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

029785223X (ISBN13: 9780297852230)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

review 1: A well-written book telling the revolutions in the Eastern European states. An easy to read history book. It encourages reading all those countries' stories seperately. It includes interesting details describing the mood of the crowds in those countries during the 1980s. The approach of the former USSR to the revolutions is also told in a well-balanced way. It also includes a chapter devoted to the expulsion of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria in late 1980s. Good work in sum.
review 2: This is a nice survey of events in Eastern Europe in 1989, covered country by country (minus Yugoslavia), during the breathtaking transformation from static, dismal castles of oppression to truly free, self-determining societies. Good, but not heavily detailed, postwar historical conte... morext is provided for each country. This is an excellent read for those of us who watched these events occur through the media in 1989, and at the beginning of 1990 were forced to ask ourselves - "Wait a minute...what just happened?" less

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