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This chapter presents the collapse of the ancien régime in Eastern Europe, a process which would not have been possible without the role played by Mikhail Gorbachev. Not long after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Ferenc Fejtö wrote:
One may hope – certainly the people of Eastern Europe hope – that the next Dubček will appear in the nerve centre of the system: Moscow.1
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Swain, G., Swain, N. (1993). The Fall of Actually Existing Socialism. In: Eastern Europe since 1945. The Making of the Modern World. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22656-6_9
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