TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCann,David
AU  - McGrattan,Cillian
TI  - Sunningdale, the Ulster workers' council strike and the struggle for democracy in Northern Ireland
SN  - 1526108399
AV  - HD5367.5.A6 .S86 2017
U1  - 943.0009048 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Manchester
PB  - Manchester University Press
KW  - General Strike, Northern Ireland, 1974
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - fast
KW  - Northern Ireland
KW  - History
KW  - 1968-1998
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-209) and index; THE 1989 REVOLUTIONS in Central and Eastern Europe: From Communism to Pluralism; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and glossary of terms; Timeline: Eastern Europe, 1945-91; Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91; East European communist parties and their post-communist successors; 1. The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes: Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe; 2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective: Robin Okey; 3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions: Mary Buckley4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': The 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic: Peter Grieder; 5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution?: Tom Junes; 6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest*: László Borhi; 7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s: Holger Nehring; 13. From the 'thirst for change' and 'hunger for truth' to a 'revolution that hardly happened': public protests and reconstructions: Nikolai Vukov Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy: James Krapfl; Select bibliography; Index; Specialized
N2  - This important book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, the authors reconsider such crucial themes as the broader historical significance of the 1989 events, the complex interaction between external and internal factors in the origins and outcomes of the revolutions, the impact of the 'Gorbachev phenomenon', the West and the end of the Cold War, the political and socio-economic determinants of the revolutionary processes in Poland, Hungary, the Ger
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