People power in the Soviet Bloc Flashcards

1
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What played an important role in ending the CW?

A

Popular pressure or people power in EE

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What broke he communist regimes’ monopoly of power and dismantled the Soviet Bloc?

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Growing disillusionment in the satellite states during the 1980s, which culminated in in widespread protests and demonstrations

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What does the people power interpretation focus on?

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The impact of events from below rather than the influence of high politics and the role of particular national leaders

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4
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What does the people power interpretation assert?

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That the mobilisation of popular discontent across EE effectively ended the CW by removing the satellite regimes

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Why did the 1980s witness growing popular discontent in EE?

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Due to the failure of central economic planning, continued repression and the moral bankruptcy of communis

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Give examples of when, before 1989, the popular opposition secured concessions from the communist regimes

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The gains made by Solidarity and the Catholic Church in Poland in 1980-81, and the state of the reform process in Hungary in 1988

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What does people power offer?

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A central explanation for the transformation of EE in 1989

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How did change occur in EE?

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Rapidly and peacefully (except in Romania)

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9
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What does the nature of change in EE point to?

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A mass rejections of the satellite regimes and an almost complete loss of popular legitimacy

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10
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Which historian sees the people power argument as important part of the explanation for the end of the CW?

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Joseph Smith

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