From Stalinism to Pluralism: A Documentary History of Eastern Europe since 1945 / Edition 2

by Gale Stokes

Overview

Bringing together a wealth of historical documents, memoirs, essays, and literature from Eastern Europe, this highly successful book vividly illustrates how the most original and challenging minds of the region have understood and reacted to Stanlinism and its successors since the end of the Second World War, ultimately showing how Eastern Europeans have made the journey from Stalinism to a new pluralism. The book creates a rich mosaic of political and historical development in these countries, presenting extracts from the works of Leszek Kolakowski, Czeslaw Milosz, Milovan Djilas, George Lukacs, Vaclav Havel, Adam Michnik, and George Konrad alongside such seminal primary documents as the Yalta Agreement, the Helsinki Accords, and the Gdansk Agreement. Organized chronologically and thematically, a fifth chapter, entitled After the Fall, has been added to create a completely updated and expanded second edition. The new edition covers the critical events attending the rise of Stalinism and the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. Four new readings on the collapse of Yugoslavia into civil war, as well as close to fifty other documents make this reader the most comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on the history and politics of Eastern Europe since the end of World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900195094465
Publication date:	01/04/1996
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	9.19(w) x 6.13(h) x 0.84(d)

About the Author

Rice University

Table of Contents

I. THE STALINIST MOMENT1. Yalta2. The Truman Doctrine and the Two-Camp Policy3. Stalinists4. The Expulsion of Yugoslavia5. The Purge TrialsII. THE MARXIST CRITIQUE6. The Hungarian Revolution7. Self-Management8. The New Class9. Marxian Oppsition in Poland10. The Praxis Group11. The Prague Spring12. The Brezhnev DoctrineIII. ANTIPOLITICS AND THE RETREAT TO ETHICS13. The Clerks14. The Sphere of Culture15. Ethics and AntipoliticsIV. THE RETURN OF POLITICS16. Economic Problems17. Poland in the Late 1970's18. Solidarity19. Central Europe20. The Return of Solidarity21. New Visions in Hungary22. The Revolutions of 1989V. AFTER THE FALL23. Nationalism24. The Collapse of Yugoslavia25. Gorbachev's Legacy

Editorial Reviews

Brings together writing's (including extracts from the works of Kolakowski, Milosz, Djilas, Lukacs, Havel, Michnik, and Konrad) and primary documents (including the Yalta Agreement, the Helsinki Accords, and the Gdansk Agreement) that reveal how Eastern Europeans have understood and reacted to Stalinism and its successors since the end of WWII. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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