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Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Reassessing the Revolutions of 1989

Issue Date January 1999
Volume 10
Issue 1
Page Numbers 69-73
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About the Author

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. His most recent book is The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century (2012).

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