Books by Mark Frankland
The Patriots’ Revolution
by Mark Frankland
This was one of the first books on 1989 and was published soon after the revolutions, in about 1992. As you can see from the title, Frankland’s point is that, whatever else they were, these were patriotic revolutions. The mistake of some journalists both then and now is to portray the revolutions as a simple victory of capitalism over communism. Economic freedom, the desire for goods that had been unavailable, was part of it, but only a part of what patriotism and democracy would bring.
Interviews where books by Mark Frankland were recommended
The best books on The Fall of Communism, recommended by Nick Thorpe
Five recommendations from the BBC’s Central Europe correspondent, who witnessed the collapse of Yugoslavia, popular uprisings in Bulgaria and Serbia, and the transformation of non-violent to violent resistance in Kosovo
