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Title 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall : transitions, state break-up and democratic politics in Central Europe and Germany / Elisabeth Bakke, Ingo Peters (eds.)
Published Berlin : BWV, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag/Intersentia, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages :) : illustrations, maps
Contents pt. 1. Transitions from communism : different pathways -- different end stations? -- pt. 2. The break-up and unification of states in the wake of the 1989 "revolutions" -- pt. 3. Party system stability and change in Germany and Central Europe since 1989 -- pt. 4. Reunited Germany, East-West relations and the German question
Summary Hauptbeschreibung On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened, signalling the beginning of the end of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. By 1990, free elections had been held in most countries in the region. Forty - in some cases fifty - years of communism had come to an end. However, the 'revolutions' of 1989 were not uniform processes: the starting points were different, the trajectories were different - and outside Central Europe even the outcomes of the transitions from communism were different. The fall of communism also caused the Soviet empire to crumble,
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Subject World politics -- 1989-
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.
HISTORY / Europe / Germany
Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
Cultural policy
Economic policy
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
World politics
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000580
Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
Europe, Eastern -- Economic policy -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005698
Former Soviet republics -- Economic policy
Germany -- History -- Unification, 1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000423
Germany -- Foreign relations -- 1990- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91004369
Germany -- Cultural policy -- 21st century
Subject Eastern Europe
Germany
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bakke, Elisabeth, editor.
Peters, Ingo (Professor of political science), editor.
ISBN 9783830527022
3830527020
Other Titles Twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall