The Final Revolution

The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19976697
AutoresGeorge Weigel (autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Páginas255
Data de publicação1991-11-19
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoThe final revolution (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraOxford University PressNew York, NY (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780195071603.001.0001
OpenAlexW4388436918
Open LibraryOL1708068M
ISBN9780195071603
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5

Many Western commentators have identified the conflict between communism and consumerism as the key factor in the ‘Revolution of 1989’ in eastern Europe. However, in this challenging new book, George Weigel argues that the real root of the Revolution lay in a radical rejection of what Vaclav Havel called communism’s ‘culture of the lie’. Beginning with the ‘martyr-cardinals’ of the 1950s, Weigel considers the role of the Roman Catholic Church in opposing nearly forty years of Kremlin dictates, and examines why the Church was able to ensure the protest of 1989 was civil, nonviolent, and democratic. He also assesses the impact of the election of John Paul II on the Eastern Bloc, and looks at his ‘grand’ strategy for Catholicism’s third millennium and the place in it of a re-Christianized Europe

Ancient history · Art history · Communism · Consumerism · Democracy · Economic history · George (robot) · Martyr · Political science · Politics · Theology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies · Religious studies · 1945 · Catholic church · Christianity · Communism and Christianity · Eastern · Eastern Europe · Europe · Europe, Eastern · politics and government · Religious aspects · Religious aspects of Revolutions · Revolutions · Revolutions, religious aspects