In “The Haunted Land: Facing Europe’s Ghosts After Communism” Tina Rosenberg delves into the topic of how the new governments of Eastern Europe deal with their respective country’s history. Rosenberg grapples with this profound topic in the former Soviet bloc countries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, and East Germany (GDR). Each with its own myriad of […]
Monthly Archive for February, 2014
The Haunted Land
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2014
A Carnival of Revolution
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2014
A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989 by Padraic Kenney posits the idea that the fall of the communist regimes in Central Europe during 1989 was sudden. That over a three and a half year period “from the post-Chernobyl demonstrations in Poland in the spring of 1986 to the Velvet Revolution in Prague…new issues, new […]
Gale Stokes The Walls Came Tumbling Down
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 6th, 2014
Gale Stokes in his book “The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe” puts forth the idea that Eastern Europe was entering a phase of pluralism in which non governmental groups used their influence to bring about change basically starting with the Prague Spring of 1968 in Czechoslovakian which was put down […]
Ceaucescu’s Last Speech
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2014
Watching the “Video of Ceausescu’s Last Speech” on the Making the History of 1989 website, a speech which Nikolae Ceausescu made on 21 December 1989, I was curious to see what the disturbance was that so rattled Ceausescu because by the end of the speech it appears a semblance of order had returned. Why would Ceausescu […]