Uncivil Society: 1989 And The Implosion Of The Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles),New

Uncivil Society: 1989 And The Implosion Of The Communist Establishment (Modern Library Chronicles),New

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Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern historys most miraculous occurrences, communism implodedand not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studiesEast Germany, Romania, and Polandto illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. This is less a story of dissidents, socalled civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling classcommunisms establishment, or uncivil society. The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hardcurrency debts and so borrowed even more. In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a Ponzi scheme, one whose implosion carries enduring lessons. From East Germanys pseudotechnocracy to Romanias megalomaniacal dystopia, from Communist Polands cult of Mary to the Kremlins surprise restraint, Kotkin and Gross pull back the curtain on the fraud and decadence that cashiered the wouldbe alternative to the market and democracy, an outcome that opened up to a deeper global integration that has proved destabilizing.

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