
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Neither Poland Nor Hungary Had a Liberal Order
Cottin complains that rumania has been unable to create a liberal order, by which he means something approximating western europe. Coken cites andra sho who taught me european union law and law school. In hungary, the regime actually created a formal opposition from nothing in order to have something to be seen negotiating with. As things fell apart in poland, the regime agreed to elections, which they assumed they would win. But they were wrong, and they were doubly wrong because they screwed up the process.
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