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100 1 $aPleshakov, Konstantin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93094240
245 10 $aThere is no freedom without bread! :$b1989 and the civil war that brought down communism /$cConstantine Pleshakov.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2009.
300 $a289 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"In There Is No Freedom Without Bread!, the Russian-born historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a daring revisionist account of 1989 and the revolutions that took place during that momentous year." "The conventional story of the end of the cold war focuses on the geopolitical power struggle between the United States and the USSR: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent the USSR, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Wall. But in fact, Pleshakov reveals, the uprising was more complex than the archetypal image of the "good" masses overthrowing the "bad" puppet regimes of the Soviet empire. Politicking, severe tensions between Moscow and local Communist governments, compromise between the revolutionary leaders and the Communist old-timers, the quagmire of the Soviet Union's war in Afghanistan, and the will and anger of the people - all had a profound influence in shaping the revolutions as multifaceted movements that brought about one of the greatest transformations in history." "In a dramatic narrative culminating in a close examination of the whirlwind year, Pleshakov challenges the received wisdom and argues that 1989 was as much about national civil wars and internal struggles for power as it was about Eastern Europeans throwing off the yoke of Moscow."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aEurope, Eastern$xPolitics and government$y1945-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000579
651 0 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1945-1991.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125848
651 0 $aPoland$xPolitics and government$y1945-1980.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104117
651 0 $aPoland$xPolitics and government$y1980-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104118
650 0 $aBerlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013357
650 0 $aCommunism$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009118356
650 0 $aCommunism$zSoviet Union$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008101329
650 0 $aAnti-communist movements$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory.
650 0 $aAnti-communist movements$zSoviet Union$xHistory.
650 0 $aAnti-communist movements$zPoland$xHistory.
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