1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR.
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Introduction 1. The Multiple Posthumous Lives of Imre Nagy, the Hungarian Hero of 1989 2. The Ecological Discourse of the Round Table as Part of the Neoliberal Turn in Poland 3. The "Happening of the People" in Yugoslavia at the End of the 1980s: Mass Movements and Disrupted Meanings in a Disintegrating Society 4. The Role of the Working Class in the Collapse of Bureaucratic Socialism in Albania (1990-1991) 5. A Paradoxical Triumph: The Rise and Fall of Soviet Academic Environmentalism (1973-1991) 6. Household Plots and the Second Economy: Continuities and Transformations from Late Soviet Russia to the Transition Period 7. The Transnational Action of the Baltic Independence Movements in the USSR (1988-1991)