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The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall
by Leigh Hafrey, Peter Schneider, Philip Boehm

The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall
by Leigh Hafrey, Peter Schneider, Philip Boehm

The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall
by Leigh Hafrey, Peter Schneider, Philip Boehm

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Preface

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ruminations on what brought down the Wall

Schneider, P. (1991). Preface. In Schneider, P. The German Comedy: Scenes of Life After the Wall. Farrar Straus Giroux, pp. 7-19

who was behind it all?

viii

But who was behind it all? Mikhail Gorbachev? No one will disagree that, with perestroika and glasnost, and, most of all, with his explicit rejection of force, Gorbachev set off the avalanche of revolutionary change. But did he know what he was unleashing? I'm sure Gorbachev intended to free the European satellite countries--even East Germany--of Soviet hegemony, but did he mean for East Germany to simply disappear from the political map of the world and be absorbed into its West German brother state? [...]

—p.viii by Peter Schneider 7 years, 5 months ago

But who was behind it all? Mikhail Gorbachev? No one will disagree that, with perestroika and glasnost, and, most of all, with his explicit rejection of force, Gorbachev set off the avalanche of revolutionary change. But did he know what he was unleashing? I'm sure Gorbachev intended to free the European satellite countries--even East Germany--of Soviet hegemony, but did he mean for East Germany to simply disappear from the political map of the world and be absorbed into its West German brother state? [...]

—p.viii by Peter Schneider 7 years, 5 months ago