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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375425322
ISBN-13
9780375425325
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71939535
Product Key Features
Book Title
Revolution 1989 : the Fall of the Soviet Empire
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
Publication Year
2009
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.5 in
Item Weight
34.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-023045
Reviews
"Vivid, panoramic . . . The writing is taut, the scene-setting dramatic, giving the book an almost cinematic feel . . . Sebestyen excels at this kind of micro-history." The Sunday Times(London) "Victor Sebestyen brilliantly pulls together the events that led to the fall of the Soviet empire in 1989 . . ." The Spectator "Graphic and detailed. . . Leads us right into the heart of the intimate dramas that make history . . . Excellent." Scotland on Sunday, Praise for VICTOR SEBESTYEN Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire "Vivid, panoramic . . . The writing is taut, the scene-setting dramatic, giving the book an almost cinematic feel . . . Sebestyen excels at this kind of micro-history." The Sunday Times(London) "Victor Sebestyen brilliantly pulls together the events that led to the fall of the Soviet empire in 1989 . . ." The Spectator "Graphic and detailed. . . Leads us right into the heart of the intimate dramas that make history . . . Excellent." Scotland on Sunday Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution "A small masterpiece that should be read and treasured by all who value mankind's eternal quest for freedom." New York Post "Excellent . . . A gripping, detailed reconstruction." The New York Times Book Review "A fast-paced journalistic narrative built scene by scene, moving deftly among the key players . . . Steeped in detail." The Wall Street Journal "Sebestyen is excellent at bringing to life the revolutionary movement. Personalities leap from his pages." Financial Times, U.S. Praise forRevolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire "Vivid personal glimpses and striking details . . . Victor Sebestyen's book is full of sharp snapshots and crisp narrative." -Timothy Garton Ash,The New York Review of Books "A sturdy examination of events that led to the collapse of Eastern Europe's communist regimes. . . Sebestyen's episodic, skillfully narrated account . . . [is] a well-crafted, constantly revealing study of the world-altering changes of recent history." -Kirkus Reviews "Sebestyen's brilliantly written narrative unfolds in brief, gripping episodes . . . A must-have accounting." -Andrew Bast,Newsweek . . . and from the UK: "Sebestyen's strength is his sharp focus and racy prose . . . Here is history written like a Greek tragedy . . ." -Michael Binyon,The Times(London) "Victor Sebestyen's vivid, panoramic work is a fine account . . . The writing is taut, the scene-setting dramatic, giving the book an almost cinematic feel." -Adam LeBor,The Sunday Times(London) "Pacy and vivid . . . [Sebestyen] is a thoroughly professional writer with a gift not only for exposition but also evocation." -Anthony Howard,The Daily Telegraph "A compelling and illuminating account of a great drama in the history of our times which showed once again that ordinary men and women really can change the world." -Jonathan Dimbleby,The Mail on Sunday "Revolution 1989is a lucid primer on the background to, and events of, that magical year. Sebestyen's narrative is clear, entertaining, and sure-footed." -Angus Macqueen,The Guardian "It's a complex story spanning many countries, but this exciting yet deeply researched work brings it impressively to life . . . Compelling." -Simon Sebag Montefiore,The Observer "A rollicking mix of high drama and sordid reality . . . spiced with telling quotations." -The Independent "A thrilling read . . . Sebestyen is good at sketching the leading players but he also succinctly conveys what life was like for ordinary citizens." -Christopher Sylvester,Daily Express "Victor Sebestyen brilliantly pulls together the events that led to the fall of the Soviet empire . . ." -Richard Beeston,The Spectator "The tale fair rips along . . . A solid piece of storytelling of an exhilarating and enspiriting moment of history." -Misha Glenny,Evening Standard "Revolution 1989is a superbly written and impressively documented chronicle of the year John Paul II described as an annus mirabilis . . . A vivid portrait." -Vladimir Tismaneanu,The Times Literary Supplement "Sharp focus and racy prose capture the events and decisions that fed into the growing turmoil across Eastern Europe as the East German regime crumbled." -The Times(London) "We're Reading" section "Sebestyen has made an excellent job of organising his disparate material, so that the reader can recapture, with the same sense of bafflement and elation, the events that made the Europe we live in-and after twenty years he can add understanding too." -Michael Fry,Scotland on Sunday "Sebestyen has got the pace and the balance just right." -The Scotsman <b
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
947.0854
Synopsis
From the author ofTwelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolutioncomes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world. At the start of 1989, six European nations were Soviet vassal states. By year's end, they had all declared national independence, embarking on the road to democracy. How did it happen so quickly? Why did the USSR capitulate so readily? Victor Sebestyen, who was on the scene reporting for the LondonEvening Standardat the time, draws on his firsthand knowledge of the events of 1989, on scores of interviews with other witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material to answer these questions in unprecedented depth. Sebestyen tells the story through the eyes of ordinary men and women, some of whom found themselves almost miraculously transformed: the furnace stoker who became the Czech foreign minister; the Romanian poet who, just freed from jail, was made vice president of the newly liberated nation. He shows how power was wielded or ceded by Mikhail Gorbachev, George H. W. Bush, Lech Walesa, Václav Havel, and Margaret Thatcher, among others; how the KGB helped bring down former allied regimes; how the United States tried to slow the process; and why the collapse of the Iron Curtain was the catalyst for the fall of the entire Soviet empire. Authoritative, riveting in both its broad political sweep and its abundance of personal detail, this is an essential addition to the annals of contemporary history., Drawing on his firsthand knowledge as a reporter of the events of 1989, on scores of interviews with other witnesses and participants, and on newly uncovered archival material, Sebestyen chronicles the events that lead to revolution and the fall of Communism.
LC Classification Number
DK288.S393 2009
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