The revolutions of 1989: Socialism, capitalism, and democracy

@article{Kumar1992TheRO,
  title={The revolutions of 1989: Socialism, capitalism, and democracy},
  author={Krishan Kumar},
  journal={Theory and Society},
  year={1992},
  volume={21},
  pages={309-356},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143945611}
}
  • Krishan Kumar
  • Published 1 June 1992
  • Political Science, History
  • Theory and Society
Many journalists and scholars will look for the correlation of that chain of spectacular transformations that changed, as if at one blow, the fates of tens of millions of individuals and the hitherto firm bipolar picture of the modern world ... Today, many people are talking and writing about the role of the intellectuals, students, and the theatre, or the influence of the Soviets' perestroika, and economic difficulties. They're right. I myself as a playwright would also add the influence of… 
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