1989


The other 1989s

Fred Halliday | 09 November 2009
While the break-up of the Soviet empire brought freedom to Eastern Europe, elsewhere the consequences were often destructive and deadly.

The Fall of the Soviet Empire

Francis Phillips | 04 November 2009
Lenin was an expert in kindling revolutions, but he would have been puzzled by the one which took place in 1989 in Eastern Europe.

The Roaring Year

Vytautas Landsbergis | 16 October 2009
A MercatorNet exclusive: the first head of state of Lithuania after the break-up of the Soviet Union recalls the heady days of 1989.

Fatigue on the road to freedom

Bryan P. Bradley | 15 October 2009
Twenty years after the demolition of the Berlin Wall, where has all the euphoria gone?

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