1989!

Written by Timothy Garton Ash The New York Review of Books

BOOKS DRAWN ON FOR THIS ESSAY

1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
by Mary Elise Sarotte
Princeton University Press, 321 pp., $29.95

Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
by Stephen Kotkin, with a contribution by Jan T. Gross
Modern Library, 197 pp., $24.00

Der Vorhang Geht Auf: Das Ende der Diktaturen in Osteuropa
by György Dalos
Munich: C.H. Beck, 272 pp., e19.90

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