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V4 In Need of a Problem-Solving Role and Institutional Memory
26 February 2021
2 March 2020
The assumption that the replication of 1989 is both possible and desirable ignores much of the unique character of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall in Central and Eastern Europe, debates ensued regarding the nature of systemic change. Did the domino-like, state-by-state collapse of communism across the region constitute a revolution, a restoration, or even, in the clever 1989 formulation of British historian Timothy Garton Ash, a “refolution”, combining the elements of reform and revolution? François Furet and Jürgen Habermas both suggested there was nothing “new” inherent in either the programs or ideals of 1989.[i]
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Barbara J. Falk is Associate Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada in Toronto. She is well known for her work on comparative dissent, Cold War history and politics, security and terrorism law and policy and political trials.
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