{"product_id":"the-walls-came-tumbling-down-gale-stokes-9780199732630","title":"The Walls Came Tumbling Down: Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe","description":"Gale Stokes' \u003cem\u003eThe Walls Came Tumbling Down\u003c\/em\u003e offered one of the most respected interpretations of the East European revolutions of 1989 for many years. It provides a sweeping yet vivid narrative of the two decades of developments that led from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the collapse of communism in 1989. Highlights of that narrative include, among other things, discussions of Solidarity and civil society in Poland, Charter 77 and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the bizarre regime of Romania's Nikolae Ceauescu and his violent downfall. In this second edition, now appropriately subtitled \u003cem\u003eCollapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe\u003c\/em\u003e, Stokes not only has revised these portions of the book in the light of recent scholarship, but has added three new chapters covering the post-communist period, including analyses of the unification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union, narratives of the admission of many of the countries of the region to the European Union, and discussion of the unfortunate outcomes of the Wars of Yugoslav Succession in the Western Balkans.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gale Stokes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199732639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199732630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Gale Stokes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44054768419071,"sku":"9780199732630","price":102.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_36991f90-b008-4b97-98e1-86e8352b8462.jpg?v=1685031881","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-walls-came-tumbling-down-gale-stokes-9780199732630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}