Velvet Revolution

In 1989, the totalitarian system of the Communist Party collapsed not only in Czechoslovakia, but also in most countries of the Eastern Bloc. This book maps the events preceding these important political changes and explains the context. We will not only go through the revolutionary year of 1989, but we will also look at the individual countries of Eastern Europe, their relationship with the Soviet Union, their specific versions of socialism and their resistance to totalitarianism in the period from the end of the Second World War.