Dismantling Communism: Common Causes and Regional Variations

by Professor Gilbert Rozman (Editor)

In chapters initially presented (but not finalized) at international workshops held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., in October 1990 and January 1991, scholars from the UK, Japan, and the US present a comparative study of socialist reform, pointing to factors that led to different outcomes at Tiananmen in June 1989 and before the Russian parliament building in August 1991. They view these events within the context of long-term processes, and also recognize where a threshold has been crossed, turning reform into full-scale dismantling. Current through early 1992. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

416 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1992