1989

The primary sources are about the nature of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, and the dramatic events in that region in the late 1980s.The secondary passages differ in their views about the end of the Cold War and about the ideas Fukuyama offered in his book The End of History and the Last Man. Concluding exercises have students assess questions such as "Explain why the communist systems the Soviet Union imposed on eastern Europe collapsed so suddenly, even after seeming so stable for so long."