The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall / Michael Meyer.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:New York : Scribner, 2009الطبعات:1st Scribner hardcover edوصف:xiii, 255 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781416558453 (hbk)
- 1416558454 (hbk)
- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 1945-1989
- Germany (East) -- History
- Communism -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Communism -- Germany (East) -- History
- Social movements -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century
- Social movements -- Germany (East) -- History
- Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989
- World politics -- 1989-
- Meyer, Michael, 1952- -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern
- Meyer, Michael, 1952- -- Travel -- Germany (East)
- DJK50 M49 2009
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DJK50 M49 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000038040 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | DJK50 M49 2009 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000038038 |
Browsing UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات shelves, Shelving location: General Collection | المجموعات العامة إغلاق مستعرض الرف(يخفي مستعرض الرف)
DJK50 G628 2001 Eastern Europe since 1970 / | DJK50 L437 1997 The legacy of the Soviet bloc / | DJK50 M49 2009 The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall / | DJK50 M49 2009 The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall / | DJK50 .P4 1998 The rise and fall of the Soviet Empire | DJK50 R67 2008 Return to diversity : a political history of East Central Europe since World War II / | DJK50 R67 2008 Return to diversity : a political history of East Central Europe since World War II / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index.
1. Genesis -- 2. The Wall -- 3. Democracy on the Danube -- 4. A Miraculous Conversion -- 5. Parallel Universes -- 6. The Hungarian Connection -- 7. High Noon -- 8. Dejeuner sur l'Herbe, or Hieronymus Bosch's Hell -- 9. The Great Escape -- 10. Vortex of Change -- 11. A Kiss of Death -- 12. The Fall -- 13. Aftermath -- 14. Denouement.
"On the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Michael Meyer provides an eyewitness account of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe that rewrites our conventional understanding of how the Cold War came to an end and holds important lessons for America's current geopolitical challenges. He shows that American intransigence was only one of many factors that provoked world-shaking change." "Meyer draws together on-the-ground accounts of the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin. But the most important events, Meyer contends, occurred secretly, in the heroic stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle, leaders such as poet and playwright, Vaclav Havel in Prague; the Baltic shipwright Lech Walesa; the quietly determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who privately realized that his empire was already lost, and decided - with courage and intelligence - to let it go in peace, Soviet general secretary of the communist party, Mikhail Gorbachev." --BOOK JACKET.