Introduction: The revolutions of 1989 -- The Past as Prologue. History and geography. The Soviet model. From above and below -- After the Revolutions. East Germany...A shortcut to democracy. Poland...A shortcut to modernity. Hungary...Goulash ecology. Czechoslovakia...A moral foreign policy. Romania...Amoral domestic policy. Bulgaria...The wrath of nations. Yugoslavia...Things fall apart. Conclusion: Things come together.
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