Understanding 1989: The revolutionary tradition revisited

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 644-652

  Tismaneanu, Vladimir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Communism; Leninist legacies; Liberalism; Nationalism; Populism; Post communism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911945945     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: 15338371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325414553888     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. This article contains, in revised form, some sections for my text “Understanding 1989: Civil Society, Ideological Erosion, and Elite Disenchantment” published in East Central Europe, 40 (2013), 150–55.
2. Special thanks to Bogdan C. Iacob for his generous editorial assistance in completing this article.
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