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Opportunities and framing in the Eastern European revolts of 1989

Cambridge University Press eBooksPublished 26 January 1996
Anthony Oberschall
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Abstract

The idea that the force of truth, the power of a truthful word, the strength of a free spirit, conscience and responsibility not armed with machine guns … might actually change something was quite beyond the horizon of [a Marxist philosopher's] understanding…Communism was overthrown by life, by thought, by human dignity. Our recent history has confirmed that.Vaclav Havel (1992)

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Social Sciences