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23 janvier 2013
- handle: 10670/1.2i3b41
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1989 revolutions political ideologies post-communism liberal democracy postsocialisms politics privatization economic reforms ethnicity nationalism geopolitics electoral systems Cold War Political Science Public Admin. & Development POL010000 JPASujets proches
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Karol Soltan, « 3. 1989 as Rebirth », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.2i3b41
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The events of 1989 were not a revolution (neither liberal, nor self-limiting, nor velvet, nor anti-revolutionary). They were not simply reforms or restoration. They were a rebirth, and rebirths (not revolutions, as Marxists would have it) are the locomotives of history. It is symptomatic of the uniqueness of these events, and the inadequacy of contemporary social science and political theory, that we still argue not just about the causes, consequences, or significance of them, but about what ...