Piotr H. Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich, eds., The Long 1989: Decades of Global Revolution. Budapest: Central European University, 2019. 290 pp.
Editor’s Introduction: The upheavals in East-Central Europe at the end of the 1980s have been covered in exhaustive detail in countless books, articles, edited volumes, and other academic publications, as well as memoirs, journalistic accounts, and collections of declassified documents from various countries. One of the most recent additions to this enormous body of literature is a volume edited by Piotr Kosicki and Kyrill Kunakhovich focusing on the international dimensions of the 1989 events, looking beyond East-Central Europe. The book was published by Central European University Press, which has produced many fine anthologies and monographs on the events of 1989 in Europe. We asked three experts on the topic to offer their appraisals of the collection, and we are publishing their assessments here seriatim along with a reply...