Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule

Kevin McDermott and Matthew Stibbe, eds. Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule. Oxford and New York: Berg, 2006. xiv, 210 pp. List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Terms. Index. $37.95, paper.

During the Cold War it was good to be a political scientist-concepts such as deterrence held sway over international relations, and Kremlinologists studied who stood next to whom in May Day parades. Now, we must pass the torch to the historians. As this important recent collection demonstrates, recently accessible archival materials, combined with new and challenging post-communist historiographies, have allowed historians to reshape many of our received …