This Mess of Troubled Times

Has 1989 vanished beneath a mountain of interpretation and reflection?

The processes set in motion by the disintegration of the socialist economy in eastern Europe eluded all analytical frameworks. It was a time of ‘wild thinking’, in which received ideas were reconsidered and values re-assessed. We are still living through this troubled era, writes the historian of the Soviet Union ...
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This Mess of Troubled Times