Fall of the Berlin Wall: The Revolutionary Legacy of 1989

The fall of the Berlin Wall sent shock waves around the world. It was, quite literally, a world-changing event. Now, more than two decades after the Wall's collapse, this book brings together leading authorities who offer a fresh look at how leaders in four vital centers of world politics--the
United States, the Soviet Union, Europe, and China--viewed the world in the aftermath of this momentous event. Jeffrey Engel contributes a chronological narrative of this tumultuous period, followed by substantive essays by Melvyn Leffler on the United States, Chen Jian on China, James Sheehan on
Germany and Europe, and William Taubman and Svetlana Savranskaya on the Soviet Union. These historians reinterpret the meaning of 1989 in the context of global history in the late 20th and early 21st century and explore such questions as why communism failed in Europe, why China took a different
route following the turmoil of Tiananmen Square, and why the peace of 1989 might well prove illusory.


Author: Jeffrey A. Engel
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 10/01/2011
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.34w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780199832446

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Engel is Associate Professor and Verlin and Howard Kruse '52 Founders Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. He is the author of Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy and the editor of Local Consequences of the Global Cold War and The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President.