From Yalta to Glasnost by Agnes Heller
The momentous events of 1989, bringing the disintegration of Stalin's empire in Eastern Europe, were the culmination of a long revolution against the post-war Yalta settlement. This book is in part a dramatic chronicle of that long process, in part a commentary on it. Its authors were themselves entangled in the history they describe until their forced emigration from Hungary. As commentators since, their reflections have never been solely adademic. Written between 1979 and 1989 the essays which make up this book recount the chapters of the great drama as it occurred. In assessing the events as they took place, Agnes Heller and Ferenc Feher made many predictions since proved correct by recent uprisings. They were, for example, the first to hail the Hungarian revolution of 1956 as a supreme effort to destroy a totalitarian regime from within; they foresaw in 1979 that the 1980s would be the decade revolution in Eastern Europe, with Poland at the centre of the storm; and amid vehement protests they pointed to the awakening of German nationalism and predicted the drive for unification.
Agnes Heller, born in 1929 in Budapest, is an influential and internationally recognized philosopher. For her work in political philosophy and ethics she has been awarded the Lessing Prize (Hamburg, 1981), the Hannah Arendt Prize (Bremen, 1995), the Sonning Prize (Copenhagen, 2005), and the Goethe Medal (Weimar, 2010). She is Professor Emeritus at the New School for Social Research in New York. Marcia Morgan is assistant professor in philosophy at Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania and lectures regularly on invitation in Europe and the United States. In 2010 she was awarded the Edna Hong Research Scholarship from the Kierkegaard Library of St. Olaf College for her forthcoming book on Kierkegaard.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780631177722 |
| ISBN 10 | 0631177728 |
| Title | From Yalta to Glasnost |
| Author | Agnes Heller |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd |
| Year published | 1990-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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