The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe

“Lévesque’s starting-point is that there really is an enigma to be resolved: how was it that something which Western leaders had long accepted was completely non-negotiable for their Soviet counterparts—the continued existence of a bloc in Eastern Europe whose leaders preserved the monopoly of power of the Communist Party and loyally supported Soviet foreign policy—could dissolve in the space of a year at the end of the 1980s? Lévesque conducted many interviews with the leading political actors in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the first half of the 1990s when their memories of recent events were still fresh.” Read more...

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