1989 As a lens for the communist past and post-communist future

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Abstract

Political scientists have documented significant variation in political and economic outcomes of the 1989-91 revolutions. Countries bordering on western Europe have become relatively democratic and economically successful, with both democracy and wealth dropping off as one moves east and south. Explanations for this variation and the replication of an older pattern on the Eurasian landmass have moved farther and farther into the past. Yet in moving to the longue durée, more proximate events such as the revolutions of 1989, the demise of communism and even the communist experience itself recede into the background and are themselves accounted for by antecedent conditions. The article discusses how two more proximate factors helped to change older patterns in central and eastern Europe: the impact of communist modernisation and the prospect of European integration. © 2009 Cambridge University Press.

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Kopstein, J. (2009, August). 1989 As a lens for the communist past and post-communist future. Contemporary European History. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777309005050

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