Gorbachev's export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe : democratisation reconsidered
Hardman, HelenAuthor
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period of 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews and textual analysis identify a common initiative between 1987 and 1989 among the fraternal communist parties of CEE to perpetuate the one-party system across this space by liberalising the economy and modernising the regime.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period of 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev's initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews and textual analysis identify a common initiative between 1987 and 1989 among the fraternal communist parties of CEE to perpetuate the one-party system across this space by liberalising the economy and modernising the regime.
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Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeevich, 1931-
Perestroæika
Democracy
Regions & Countries - Europe
History & Archaeology
Russia & Former Soviet Republics