Orange people: A brief history of transnational liberation networks in East Central Europe

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-71

  Arias King, Fredo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anticommunism; Antisocial personality disorder; Democracy activism; Logotherapy; Regime overthrow; Transnational influences; Transnational revolutionary networks

Indexed keywords

ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL HISTORY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34249774570     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.15.1.29-72     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Cited in Blaine Harden, "Czechoslovak Party Ousts Leaders, Gives Up 'Leading Role,'" Washington Post, November 25, 1989, A1.
2. A leading study outlining in detail the contextual factors that compelled each Soviet republic to break away is Ian Bremmer and Ray Taras, Nation and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
3. American Psychiatric Association, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,
4. ed. (Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association, 1994), 646-47. 4. Quoted in Jeremy Bransten, "Czech Republic: Former Leaders Argue over Meaning of 1989," Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, November 17, 1999, http://www.rferl.org/secials/communism/10years/cz6.asp (accessed May 26, 2006).
5. See, for example, Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986), 49.
6. Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, 17th printing (New York: Washington Square, 1970), 179. I thank my mother, Arlene King de Arias, a PhD candidate in psychology, for pointing me to Frankl.
7. Adam Michnik, Letters from Prison and Other Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), 89.
8. Timothy Garton Ash, The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin and Prague (New York: Vintage Books, 1990/99).
9. For an excellent study applying this to the Soviet case, see Gordon Hahn, Russia's Revolution from Above: Reform, Transition, and Revolution in the Fall of the Soviet Communist Regime (New Brunswick, Canada: Transaction Publishers, 2002). A study that reflects a similar logic in explaining the breakthrough in Poland is Marjorie Castle, Triggering Communism's Collapse: Perceptions and Power in Poland's Transition (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
10. Perhaps the most comprehensive account of the effect and influence of the liberation of Eastern Europe on the Soviet Union, using a wealth of archival research in nine languages, mainly (but not exclusively) through the prism of the "demonstration effect," can be found in the three-part tour de force by Mark Kramer, "The Collapse of East European Communism and the Repercussions within the Soviet Union," Journal of Cold War Studies, Fall 2003, Fall 2004, and Winter 2004.
11. Alexander Dubcek, Hope Dies Last: The Autobiography of Alexander Dubcek (New York: Kodansha America, 1993), 145.