Violence and the End of Revolution After 1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480696 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Auer (0000-0002-2722-3090, La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, , Innovative Universities European Union (IUEU) Centre, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 97 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 6-25 |
| Publication date | 2009-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513608101906 |
| OpenAlex | W2103837162 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
The series of Velvet revolutions in 1989, which brought about the collapse of communism in Europe, seem to have vindicated those political theorists and activists who believed in the possibility of non-violent power. The relative success of the 1989 revolutions has validated a new paradigm of revolutionary change based on the assumption that radical changes were attainable through moderate means. Yet the legacy of these non-violent revolutions also points towards the limits of political strategies fundamentally opposed to violence. The article shows that the key architects of non-violent revolutions in 1989 were well aware of the contingent nature of all political actions, and were thus willing to take risks in their pursuit of freedom
Communism · Political economy · Political science · Political violence · Politics · Sociology · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
Health and Social Change in Russia and Eastern Europe
Czechoslovakia's Interrupted Revolution
Liberal Nationalism in Central Europe
Letters From Prison and Other Essays
The Prague Spring and its Aftermath
The Power of the Powerless
The Guns That Didn't Smoke
The Paradoxes of the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe
Revolution and Freedom
And 1968, 1939 and 1969, and the Philosophy of Czech History from Karel H. Mácha to Jan Patočka
Commentary and Discussion
Civil Society Against the State
The Unconquerable World
A German Racial Revolution
Making Europe unconquerable
Conversations with Gorbachev
The origins of totalitarianism
Ideology and Terror
Genealogies of Total Domination
The Great Waiting, or the Freedom of the East
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |