The break-up of Communism in East Germany and Eastern Europe
By: Feiwel Kupferberg.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern.; Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1989-; Germany (East) -- Politics and government -- 1989-1990.
Other titles: Breakup of Communism in East Germany and Eastern Europe
Description: This book presents a novel understanding of the break-up of communist hegemony in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Based on comparative case-studies, it argues that identity politics is a particular invention of communist rule, producing apolitical citizens.

Focusing upon identity politics helps us to understand better the long-term stability of communist hegemony, its sudden collapse, the difficulties of transforming communist societies into liberal democracies and the unexpected revival of ethnic, nationalist and cultural conflicts in post-communist Eastern Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.