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Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story. The story these books tell is more of a civil war within the elite than of a revolt from below.
Author: Philip D. Zelikow
November/December 2009
Foreign Affairs
Twenty years after the revolutions of 1989 brought down communism, a fresh crop of books attempts to unpack this epic story. The story these books tell is more of a civil war within the elite than of a revolt from below.
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