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Article: de Nevers, Renee. Comrades No More: the Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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de Nevers, Renee. Comrades No More: The Seeds of Change in Eastern Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. x + 305 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $25.00.
I recall watching a television broadcast in the late 1980s of a high-ranking Soviet official giving a news conference. When a Western reporter asked what the difference was between the Prague Spring of 1968 and the burgeoning perestroika phenomenon of the Gorbachev era, the official quipped, without hesitation, "about twenty years." This astounding volte-face in the international relations of the Warsaw Pact is the starting point for Renee de Nevers' study. Her main goal is to analyze bow the Warsaw Pact fell apart ...