Uncivil Society
Uncivil Society Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. In one of modern history's most miraculous…
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Uncivil Society
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. In one of modern history's most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded-and not with a bang, but with a whimper.
In a crisp, concise, unsentimental narrative, they employ three case studies-East Germany, Romania, and Poland-to illuminate what led Communist regimes to surrender, or to be swept away in political bank runs. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection, revisit this crash. This is less a story of dissidents, so-called civil society, than of the bankruptcy of a ruling class-communism's establishment, or -uncivil society.- The Communists borrowed from the West like drunken sailors to buy mass consumer goods, then were unable to pay back the hard-currency debts and so borrowed even more.
In Eastern Europe, communism came to resemble a
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