PART I: INTRODUCTION. One revolution of the Earth -- 1989 chronologies PART II: ANTECEDENTS. Cold War -- Changes in China -- East European dissidents speak out -- Cold War leadership at the end of the Cold War PART III: 1989 : THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION. The Soviet Union and East-Central Europe -- China Beijing spring -- Africa PART IV: AFTERMATH. China -- Europe
Summary:
Nineteen eighty-nine marked the end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the end of apartheid, and the "Beijing Spring" protests in Tiananmen Square. This reader express why the world was caught by surprise by these events and why the revolutions in Eastern Europe and in South Africa ended in jubilation, while the protests in China ended in tragedy.
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