Modern Revolution: Social Change and Cultural Continuity in Czechoslovakia and China - Softcover

Brook penetrates deeply into the interplay of ideas, events, and world history in the making of the 'Velvet Revolution' in Czechoslovakia in 1989. In presenting the most theoretically detailed analysis of this revolution, he provides new insights into the nature of revolutionary conjunctures, and the factors that intervene when revolutionary ideas and state power collide. -- Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University and editor of Revolutions: Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical St

Using a comparative historical methodology, this book analyzes and contrasts the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia with China's Tiananmen Square rebellion from socio-cultural and political economic perspectives.