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2266789Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989https://www.gandhi.com.mx/post-wall-post-square-rebuilding-the-world-after-1989-9780008280123/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2044395/3a6e12b5-5243-4b6b-9350-fee155176c13.jpg?v=638383430073430000706706MXNHarperCollins PublishersInStock/Audiolibros/2203159Post Wall, Post Square: Rebuilding the World after 1989706706https://www.gandhi.com.mx/post-wall-post-square-rebuilding-the-world-after-1989-9780008280123/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2044395/3a6e12b5-5243-4b6b-9350-fee155176c13.jpg?v=638383430073430000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20199780008280123_W3siaWQiOiIzNGE0ZjFmOS01NGE4LTQ5YmItYWY5YS0xMGE1YjY3ZjRjM2QiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjcxNSwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6NzE1LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wMVQwMDowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOmZhbHNlLCJpc0VsaWdpYmxlRm9yQ3JlZGl0VHJpYWwiOnRydWUsImNyZWRpdFB1cmNoYXNlUHJpY2UiOjF9XQ==9780008280123_<p><strong>A gripping and compelling account. The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, <em>Literary Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born.</strong></p><p>The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massacre in Tiananmen Square. Now, with deft analysis and a wealth of newly declassified archival sources, historian Kristina Spohr offers a bold and novel interpretation of the revolutionary upheaval of 1989 and, how in its aftermath, a new world order was forged without major conflict.</p><p>The Post-Wall world, Spohr argues, was brought about in significant measure through the determined diplomacy of a small cohort of international leaders. They engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation and worked together to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War. Exploring this extraordinary historical moment, Spohr offers a major reappraisal of US President George H. W. Bush and innovative assessments of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and President Franois Mitterrand of France.</p><p>But the transformation of Europe must be understood in global context. Spohr elegantly weaves together the Western and Asian timelines to revelatory effect, by contrasting events in Berlin and Moscow with the story in Beijing, where the pro-democracy movement was brutally suppressed by Deng Xiaoping. Post Square, he pushed through Chinas very different Communist reinvention.</p><p>Meticulously researched and brilliantly original, Post Wall, Post Square provides an authoritative contemporary history of those crucial hinge years of 1989-1992 and their implications for our times. The world of Putin, Trump and Xi, with a fractious European Union, rogue states and the crisis of mass migration has its roots in the global exit from the Cold War.</p>(*_*)9780008280123_<p><strong>A gripping and compelling account. The peaceful ending of the Cold War between West and East remains one of the greatest achievements of modern statecraft CHRISTOPHER ANDREW, <em>Literary Review</em></strong></p><p><strong>This landmark global study makes us rethink what happened when the Cold War ended and our present era was born.</strong></p><p>The world changed dramatically as the Berlin Wall fell and protest turned to massacre in Tiananmen Square. Now, with deft analysis and a wealth of newly declassified archival sources, historian Kristina Spohr offers a bold and novel interpretation of the revolutionary upheaval of 1989 and, how in its aftermath, a new world order was forged without major conflict.</p><p>The Post-Wall world, Spohr argues, was brought about in significant measure through the determined diplomacy of a small cohort of international leaders. They engaged in tough but cooperative negotiation and worked together to reinvent the institutions of the Cold War. Exploring this extraordinary historical moment, Spohr offers a major reappraisal of US President George H. W. Bush and innovative assessments of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, and President Franois Mitterrand of France.</p><p>But the transformation of Europe must be understood in global context. Spohr elegantly weaves together the Western and Asian timelines to revelatory effect, by contrasting events in Berlin and Moscow with the story in Beijing, where the pro-democracy movement was brutally suppressed by Deng Xiaoping. Post Square, he pushed through Chinas very different Communist reinvention.</p><p>Meticulously researched and brilliantly original, Post Wall, Post Square provides an authoritative contemporary history of those crucial hinge years of 1989-1992 and their implications for our times. The world of Putin, Trump and Xi, with a fractious European Union, rogue states and the crisis of mass migration has its roots in the global exit from the Cold War.</p><p>In Post Wall, Post Square, Kristina Spohr offers a comprehensive analysis of the political and global relations that shaped the 20th century. Her detailed examination of former Russian politics and the impact of globalisation makes this book a must-read for anyone interested in political science.</p><p>For fans of Serhii Plokhy (The Russo-Ukrainian War), Anne Applebaum (Twilight of Democracy), Antony Beevor (Russia), Masha Gessen (The Future is History), and Garrett M. Graff (UFO).</p>...9780008280123_HarperCollins Publishersaudiolibro_385a810c-11bf-3602-b8b5-43a43e83bc47_9780008280123;9780008280123_9780008280123Kristina SpohrInglésMéxicoNoMINUTE2019-10-03T00:00:00+00:00HarperCollins Publishers