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Article: How to succeed in revolution without really trying.
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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History surprises. As Charles Tilly points out in the opening pages of European Revolutions, 1492-1992, scarcely had Europeans decided that the age of revolution was over, than revolution swept through eastern and central Europe, toppling one regime after another.
The events of 1989 in the German Democratic Republic, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania, involved not only the collapse of communist governments in those countries but also formed part of a larger process, the coming apart of the system set in place by the October Revolution of 1917. Events subsequent to 1989, especially the bungled coup of August, 1991, led to the dissolving of the Soviet Union in ...
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