University of Kansas: Anna M. Cienciala's "The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989"

Read this lecture. Focus on the following questions: why did communist authorities decide to negotiate with the dissidents in various Eastern Bloc states in 1989 and 1990? What were the most important aims of the dissidents? Which aims were shared across the Soviet Bloc and which aims were specific to each country? Why did the revolution turn violent in Romania and not elsewhere in the region?

Click http://web.ku.edu/~eceurope/hist557/lect19b.htm link to open resource.