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A carnival of revolution : Central Europe 1989 /
This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers and famed intellectuals, not in decrepit economies--but in the whirlwind of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Street Theater, Concrete Poetry
- pt. 1. Actors, Stages, Repertoires
- Ch. 1. Eating the Crocodile with a Spoon, or, A Career Guide to the Underground
- Ch. 2. Come with Us! They Aren't Beating Today! The Art of The Blizzard
- Ch. 3. As If in Europe: The International World of Peace and Human Rights
- Ch. 4. The New Politics of the Konkretny Generation
- Ch. 5. How the Smurfs Captured Gargamel, or, A Revolution of Style
- Photoessay: Photographing the Carnival
- pt. 2. A Revolution in Sixteen Scenes
- Scene 1. "I Blink, and I See Another World": The Candlelight March
- Scene 2. A Tale of Two Lenins
- Scene 3. Slovene Spring
- Scene 4. Days That Shook Lviv
- Scene 5. Strikes in Shades of Orange
- Scene 6. An Invasion Remembered
- Scene 7. WaterDam/ned: Hungary Defends the Danube
- Scene 8. Independence Day and Palach Week
- Scene 9. Encircling the Round Table
- Scene 10. Mothers and Children
- Scene 11. On the Fourth of June.
- Scene 12. Hungarians Bury the Communists
- Scene 13. Korzos and Road Races
- Scene 14. Lviv Passes the Baton
- Scene 15. The Mosquito and the Messedemos
- Scene 16. Bring a Flower with You! The Velvet Revolution
- Epilogue: No More Picnics, After the Revolution.