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There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism

There Is No Freedom Without Bread!: 1989 and the Civil War That Brought Down Communism

Pleshakov, Constantine

Paperback

Eastern European HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $23.00

ISBN10: 0312655339
ISBN13: 9780312655334
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Sep 28 2010
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

The conventional story of the end of the Cold War is simple: Ronald Reagan waged an aggressive campaign against communism, outspent his opponent, and forced Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down this wall.

In There Is No Freedom Without Bread!, Russian-born historian Constantine Pleshakov proposes a different interpretation. The revolutions that took place in 1989 were the result of politicking, tensions between Moscow and local governments, compromise between revolutionary leaders and communist old-timers, and the will and anger of the people. In a dramatic narrative culminating in that 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 the Eastern Europeans throwing off the yoke of Moscow.

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