TOL Special Report - 1989: 20 YEARS AFTER

Life beyond Communism in Central & Eastern Europe

This new TOL special report, which was published in November 2009, comprises a compilation of Transitions Online articles related the revolutions of 1989 in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, and to the state of democracy, culture and civil society in the region today.

Importantly, the report addressed how the events of 1989 continue to resonate across Europe and Asia today – in politics and government, in art and commerce, in the everyday lives of everyday people.

Featured articles include:

Democracies Without Democrats, The Russian Patient, No More Low-Hanging Fruit, Where Did We Go Wrong?,
Living in the Anti-Material World, Still Comrades After All These Years, Dead Soles, No More Tractor Barricades,
The View from Carpathia, Zhivkov With Us, Velvet Cinema, Changing Professions, And End to 'Doubleness', Teaching One History, Living Another, The More Things Change, From the Front Office to the Factory Floor, Velvet Recollections, A Spititual Revolution, Dancing Days, I Didn't Believe It Would Last, The Rushed, Revolution, We Are Not Like Them

Where Are They Now?
Gabor Demszky, Fedor Gal, Emil Koshlukov, Josef Glemp, Mircea Dinescu, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Klara Vesela Samkova, Miklos Nemeth, Monica Lovinescu, Marta Kubisova, Laszlo Tokes, Zhelyu Zhelev, Jerzy Urban, Vladimir Meciar, Wojciech Jaruzelski

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