Michael Bernhard and Jan Kubik, eds., “Twenty Years After Communism” (Oxford UP, 2015)

In Conversation: An OUP Podcast · Nov 23, 2015 · 1h 8m

For people and governments in the west the revolutions of 1989 and 1991 were happy events, and as the twentieth anniversary of those events rolled around they were to be celebrated once again with historical reviews in newsmagazines and tv news shows. For the peoples of Eastern Europe they were always political events that went beyond the thrill of no longer being systematically harassed for being too openly religious or public about political views not in line with the party line. There were big questions about how to deal with the legacy of communist rule and how to redirect the country…