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100 1 $aKotkin, Stephen.
245 10 $aUncivil society :$b1989 and the implosion of the communist establishment /$cStephen Kotkin ; with a contribution by Jan T. Gross.
260 $aNew York :$bModern Library,$c2009.
300 $a1 online resource
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490 1 $aA Modern Library chronicles book
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aTwenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history's most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded'and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies'East Germany, Romania, and Poland'to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class'communism's establishment, or "uncivil society." The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hard-currency debts and so borrowed even more. In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a Ponzi scheme, one whose implosion carries enduring lessons. From East Germany's pseudotechnocracy to Romania's megalomaniacal dystopia, from Communist Poland's cult of Mary to the Kremlin's surprise restraint, Kotkin and Gross pull back the curtain on the fraud and decadence that cashiered the would-be alternative to the market and democracy, an outcome that opened up to a deeper global integration that has proved destabilizing. From the Hardcover edition
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650 0 $aSocial change$zEurope, Eastern$xHistory$y20th century.
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650 7 $aSocial change.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01122310
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651 7 $aEastern Europe.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01245079
651 7 $aFormer communist countries.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01298680
651 7 $aSoviet Union.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01210281
648 7 $aSince 1900$2fast
655 4 $aElectronic books.
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700 1 $aGross, Jan Tomasz.
776 08 $iPrint version:$aKotkin, Stephen.$tUncivil society.$dNew York : Modern Library, 2009$z9780812966794$z0812966791$w(OCoLC)656503160
830 0 $aModern Library chronicles ;$v32.
830 0 $aModern Library chronicles.
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