Post Wall, post Square how Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng shaped the world after 1989 / Kristina Spohr.
| Author/creator | Spohr, Kristina |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020. |
| Description | 768 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng shaped the world after 1989 |
| Contents | Reinventing Communism: Russia and China -- Toppling Communism: Poland and Hungary -- Reuniting Germany, dissolving Eastern Europe -- Securing Germany in the post-wall world -- Building a Europe 'whole and free' -- 'A new world order' -- Russian revolution -- 'Dawn of a new era' -- Glimpsing a 'Pacific century' -- Epilogue. Post wall, post square: a world remade? |
| Summary | This book offers a bold new interpretation of the revolutions of 1989, showing how a new world order was forged without major conflict. Based on extensive archival research, Kristina Spohr attributes this in large measure to determined diplomacy by a handful of international leaders, who engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War. She offers a major reappraisal of George H. W. Bush and innovative assessments of Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl, as well as Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand. But, she argues, Europe's transformation must be understood in global context. By contrasting events in Berlin and Moscow with the brutal suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Beijing, the book reveals how Deng Xiaoping pushed through China's very different Communist reinvention. Here is an authoritative yet highly readable exploration of the crucial hinge years of 1989-1992 and their consequences for today's world. |
| General note | "First published in Great Britain in 2019 by William Collins, as Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019949330 |
| ISBN | 9780300233827 (hardcover ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300233825 (hardcover alk. paper) |