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Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire (Hardcover)

By: Victor Sebestyen (Author)


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Documents the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empires and the transition of each to independent states, drawing on interviews with everyday people and newly uncovered archival material to offer insight into 1989's rapid changes and the USSR's minimal resistance.

A revelatory account of the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire during several months of astonishing revolution that profoundly changed the world.
At the start of 1989, ten European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence, embarking on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Why did the USSR capitulate so readily? Victor Sebestyen draws on his firsthand knowledge as a reporter of the events of 1989, on scores of interviews with other witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material to answer these questions in unprecedented depth.
Sebestyen tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women, some of whom found themselves almost miraculously transformed: the furnace stoker who became the Czech foreign minister; the Romanian poet who, just freed from jail, was made vice president of the newly liberated nation. We see power wielded or ceded by Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, Lech Walesa, Vaclav Havel, and Margaret Thatcher, among others. We learn how the KBG helped bring down former allied regimes, how the United States tried to slow the process, and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire.
Authoritative, riveting in both its broad political sweep and its abundance of personal detail, this is an essential addition to the annals of contemporary history.



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