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- 1989 signifies the collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War, a moment generally recognised as a triumph for liberal democracy and when capitalism became global. The Global 1989 challenges these ideas.
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Nov 4, 2019 · It was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled. East...
The first Australian Capital Territory elections are held. March 7 – Iran breaks off diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom over Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses. March 9 – Revolutions of 1989: The Soviet Union submits to the jurisdiction of the World Court.
Jun 18, 2009 · In a way that was only dimly perceived 20 years ago, elements such as multinational business, technological innovation and personal faith now shape our world just as states do. Whatever the...
Patrick R. Potyondy. Leticia R. Wiggins. Guests. Nicholas Breyfogle. Angela Brintlinger. Theodora Dragostinova. Twenty-five years ago this autumn, the world watched in amazement as events in Eastern Europe transformed the planet. Socialist states that had looked a permanent fixture on the map of Europe disintegrated, often with little resistance.
Aug 1, 2009 · When explaining 1989, one needs to focus on three major themes: the deep-seated meanings of the collapse of state socialist regimes in east central Europe, the nature of revolutions at the end of the twentieth century, and the role of critical (public) intellectuals in politics.
- Vladimir Tismaneanu
- 2009
The Revolutions of 1989 refers to the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the end of the period of the Cold War and the removal of the Iron Curtain between Eastern and Western Europe. Primarily, it was the disavowal of Communism by all of the Eastern European states that were in the Soviet sphere of influence after World War II .
May 5, 2015 · While in many parts of the world people actively ushered in a new era of democratic and neoliberal economic reform measures, massive pushbacks against similar measures in countries like Venezuela complicate one of the more dominant memories of 1989 as a year of successful, nonviolent people power.
