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    <title>Revolution 1989</title>
    <subTitle>the fall of the Soviet empire</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Sebestyen, Victor</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1956-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Pantheon Books</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st U.S. ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xxi, 451 p. [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>Documents the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslvakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and the transition of each to independent states, drawing on interviews and newly uncovered archival material to offer insight into 1989's rapid changes and the USSR's minimal resistance.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Victor Sebestyen.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-428) and index.</note>
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    <geographic>Soviet Union</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1985-1991</temporal>
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    <geographic>Europe, Eastern</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1989-</temporal>
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    <geographic>Europe, Central</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1989-</temporal>
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  <subject>
    <geographic>Unión Soviética</geographic>
    <topic>Política y gobierno</topic>
    <temporal>1985-1991</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">338 DK 288 S443r 2009</classification>
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