The long 1989 : decades of global revolution / edited by Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich.

"The fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe is now the frame of reference for any mass mobilization, from the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement to Brexit. The Long 1989 is about the slow, uneven spread of 'nineteen eighty-nine' across the world -- as a set of ideas, discourses, and normative models of revolution. This book's ten chapters consider how revolutionary events in Europe resonated many years later and thousands of miles away: in China and South Africa, Chile and Afghanistan, Turkey and the USA. They trace the circulation of people, practices, and ideas that linked these countries, turning local developments into a global phenomenon. It is now a platitude to call 1989 a 'world event, ' but the chapters in this volume show -- for the first time in the scholarship -- how it actually became one. At the same time, they examine the many shifts that revolution underwent in transit. All ten chapters detail the process of mutation, adaptation, and appropriation by which foreign affairs gained meaning on the ground. They interrogate the uses and understandings of 'nineteen-eighty-nine' in particular national contexts, often many years after the fact. Taken together, the chapters in this volume ask how the fall of communism in Europe became the basis for revolutionary action around the globe. They invite us to rethink the revolutions of 1989 by expanding their chronological and geographic scope. In so doing, The Long 1989 meets 21st-century imperatives, highlighting both continuity and rupture in a world grappling with the resurgence of populism, fanaticism, and fear, but also powerful grassroots action crossing borders and oceans. In sum, this book proposes a paradigm shift in global thinking about revolution, protest, and the international system"-- Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1989 compared and connected : the demise of Communism in Poland and Apartheid in South Africa / Adrian Guelke and Tom Junes -- Islam as ideology and tactic : Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan / Vera Exnerová -- European lessons for China : Tiananmen 1989 and beyond / Martin K. Dimitrov -- Dialogical democracy : King, Michnik, and the American culture wars / Jeffrey Stout -- The virtue of not inventing anything / István Rév -- The rule of law after the short twentieth century : launching a global career / Martin Krygier -- Catalyst of history : Francis Fukuyama, the Iraq War, and the legacies of 1989 in the Middle East / Samuel Helfont -- Social movement vs. social arrest : the global occupations of the twenty-first century / Mehmet Dösemeci -- Euromaidan and the 1989 legacy : solidarity in action? / Valeria Korablyova.

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