From Revolution to Uncertainty

Włodzimierz Borodziej is professor of History at Warsaw University, Stanislav Holubec is a researcher at the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, and Joachim von Puttkamer is professor of Eastern European History at Jena University and co-director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg.

Illustrations



List of Contributors



Introduction



Włodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec and Joachim von Puttkamer



Chapter 1



Groping in the dark: expectations and predictions, 1988–1991

Philipp Ther



Chapter 2

Catalysts of the collapse and of the transition, 1989–1990



Mary Elise Sarotte



Chapter 3

Poland and the collapse of the patron in 1989–90: as seen from the Polish embassy in Moscow



Włodzimierz Borodziej



Chapter 4

Tea with the primate: at the roots of political conflict in Poland



Joachim von Puttkamer



Chapter 5

Czechoslovakia’s year of decision: from the socialist revolution of 1989 to the ‘real’ revolution of 1990



James Krapfl



Chapter 6



Talkin’ ’bout a revolution: on the social memory of 1989 in Hungary



Éva Kovács



Chapter 7

A transition to what and whose democracy? 1990 in Bulgaria and Romania



Bogdan C. Iacob



Chapter 8

When the Slovenian Spring turned into a hot summer



Marko Zajc



Chapter 9

1990: building democracy in Yugoslavia and the danger of war



Marie-Janine Calic



Chapter 10

Transforming industry: on the corporate origins of post-socialist nostalgia in Poland



Joanna Wawrzyniak



Chapter 11

German reunification and the dynamics of migration



Tim Schanetzky



Chapter 12

The party is over: the identities and biographies of Czechoslovak and East German (post) communists in the year 1990



Stanislav Holubec



Chapter 13

Poland, the German question, and German unification, 1989–1991



Włodzimierz Borodziej



Chapter 14

The German question and its European solution



Wilfried Loth



Index