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Cargando... The Year that Changed the World: The Untold Story Behind the Fall of the Berlin Wallpor Michael Meyer
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  rsutto22 | Jul 15, 2021 |   Meyers huomauttaa hienosti kuinka pienistä asioista Itä-Euroopan tapahtumat olivat tuolloin kiinni. Vaikka todennäköisesti blokki olisi vääjäämättömästi joskus romahtanut oli sen vauhti ja käänteet kiinni pienistä asioista. Pienet asiat kuten Berliinin muurin murtumiseen johtanut itäsaksalaisen puoluepampun Schabowskin möläytys koskien matkustusrajoituksia - pienoinen lapsus, jolla oli valtavat ennalta-arvaamattomat seuraukset. Meyersin tapa kuvailla tapahtumia niiden sisältä käsin yksittäisten ihmisten kautta on vakuuttavaa. Jos haluaa syväluotaavan, mutta silti kevyehkön kuvauksen muurin takaisista tapahtumista on kirja pakko luettavaa. (  ) kirjastoseta | Feb 25, 2013 |  ) danawl | Apr 7, 2012 |
 Meyer places the spotlight on what happened -- Hungary's opening of its borders, the Nov. 9 fall of the Berlin Wall, the domino decline of other Eastern European states -- while lacing in accessibly deep, if not Hegelian, historical explanation. This is a competent and professional account—though it does not quite merit its claim to be the untold story.
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HTML: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! President Ronald Reagan's famous exhortation when visiting Berlin in 1987 has long been widely cited as the clarion call that brought the Cold War to an end. The United States won, so this version of history goes, because Ronald Reagan stood firm against the USSR; American resoluteness brought the evil empire to its knees. Michael Meyer, who was there at the time as a Newsweek bureau chief, begs to differ. In this extraordinarily compelling account of the revolutions that roiled Eastern Europe in 1989, Meyer shows that American intransigence was only one of many factors that provoked world-shaking change. He draws together breathtakingly vivid, on-the-ground accounts of the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland, the stealth opening of the Hungarian border, the Velvet Revolution in Prague, and the collapse of the infamous wall in Berlin. But the most important events, Meyer contends, occurred secretly, in the heroic stands taken by individuals in the thick of the struggle---leaders such as poet and playwright Vaclav Havel in Prague; the Baltic shipwright Lech Walesa; the quietly determined reform prime minister in Budapest, Miklos Nemeth; and the man who privately realized that his empire was already lost and decided, with courage and intelligence, to let it go in peace, Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet general secretary of the Communist party. Reporting for Newsweek from the frontlines in Eastern Europe, Meyer spoke to these players and countless others. Alongside their deliberate interventions were also the happenstance and human error of history that are always present when events accelerate to breakneck speed. Meyer captures these heady days in all of their rich drama and unpredictability. In doing so he provides not just a thrilling chronicle of the most important year of the twentieth century but also a crucial refutation of American political mythology and a triumphal misunderstanding of history that seduced the United States into many of the intractable conflicts it faces today. The Year That Changed the World will change not only how we see the past, but also our understanding of America's future. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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As the on-scene reporter for Newsweek Magazine at the time, Meyer was a witness to these important events, and has unique insights to the events and the individuals from this important period. He also adds insights behind the American myth that the Berlin Wall collapsed simply because of the arms race which the Soviet Union couldn't afford, and because of President Ronald Reagan's speech in which he said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall". Like most simple explanations, there are many other factors affecting important historical events, and Meyer points out that the collapse of the eastern bloc came mainly from within vs. from outside.
In conclusion to this interesting time, Meyers points out how misreading Reagan's interactions with the Soviet Union as cause and effect of the collapse of the USSR had an impact on the Bush Administrations Foreign Policy, specifically leading to the Iraq invasion. (