@article{1387378,
      recid = {1387378},
      author = {De Nevers, Renée.},
      title = {Comrades no more : the seeds of political change in  Eastern Europe /},
      publisher = {MIT Press,},
      address = {Cambridge, MA :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 305 pages) :},
      year = {2003},
      abstract = {In 1989, Soviet control over Eastern Europe ended when the  communist regimes of the Warsaw Pact collapsed. These  momentous and largely bloodless events set the stage for  the end of the Cold War and ushered in a new era in  international politics. Why did communism collapse  relatively peacefully in Eastern Europe? Why did these  changes occur in 1989, after more than four decades of  communist rule? Why did this upheaval happen almost  simultaneously in most of the Warsaw Pact? In Comrades No  More, Renee de Nevers examines how internal and external  factors interacted in the collapse of East European  communism. She argues that Gorbachev's reforms in the  Soviet Union were necessary to start the process of  political change in Eastern Europe, but domestic factors in  each communist state determined when and how each country  abandoned communism. A "demonstration effect" emerged as  Hungary and Poland introduced reforms and showed that  Moscow would not intervene to prevent political and  economic changes.De Nevers analyzes the process of change  in Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, the German Democratic  Republic, Czechoslovakia, and Romania. She traces the  pattern of reform in each country and shows how these  patterns influenced their postcommunist political  evolution.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1387378},
}