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Svetlana Savranskaya, « The Logic of 1989: The Soviet Peaceful Withdrawal from Eastern Europe », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.9jylfh
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The Cold War came to an end in the exact geographical region where it began. In 1989, Eastern Europe became the epicenter of breathtaking changes that went beyond all Western expectations, Soviet fears, and the hopes of the East Europeans themselves. The non-violent and even harmonious nature of the change was naturally welcome but it was also puzzling to contemporaries, just as it still is to students of international politics today, who see it as a kind of beautiful aberration from the real...