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Possible Starting Places

• "1989: Key Events In Europe's Revolution," BBC News.

• "1989 -- Europe's Revolution," BBC News Special Reports, March 22, 2010.

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1989 Revolutions In The News

 

General

•   Seumas Milne, "The Real Lesson Of 1989 Is That Nothing Is Ever Settled," Guardian, November 11, 2009.

• Steven Erlanger, "The Legacy Of 1989 Is Still Up For Debate," New York Times, November 9, 2009.

•   Anne Applebaum, "After The Wall Tumbled," Slate, November 9, 2009.

• Ian Buruma, "What's Left After 1989?," Guardian, November 8, 2009.

• "Mapping The Fall Of Communism," BBC News, November 6, 2009.

•   Brian Hanrahan, "Europe's Revolution 20 Years On," BBC News, November 2, 2009.

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Czechoslovakia

•   Dan Bilefsky, "Celebrating Revolution with Roots In A Rumor," New York Times, November 17, 2009.

•   Dan Bilefsky, "Czech's Velvet Revolution Paved By Plastic People," New York Times, November 15, 2009.

•   Dinah Spritzer, "In Prague, Toasts To The Velvet Revolution," New York Times, November 8, 2009.

• Michael Simmons, "1989 Memories Leave Czechs Confused," Guardian, November 7, 2009.

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Germany

•   Oana Lungescu, "Germany's Reunification Plunge," BBC News, October 1, 2010.

•   "Berlin Remembers Fall Of The Wall," BBC News, November 9, 2009.

• Brian Hanrahan, "The Night The Berlin Wall Fell," BBC News, November 9, 2009.

• Michael Slackman, "Berlin Journal: Recalling History On A Day Of Light And Darkness," New York Times, November 9, 2010.

•   Serge Schmemann, "A Fateful Day, And The East Tasted Freedom," New York Times, November 8, 2009.

• Brian Hanrahan, "How A Blunder Finished Off The Wall," BBC News, November 8, 2009.

• Bruni De La Motte, "East Germans Lost Much In 1989," Guardian, November 8, 2009.

•   Nicholas Kulish, "With Wall Just A Memory, Germany Divisions Fade," New York Times, November 7, 2009.

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Hungary

•   Brian Hanrahan, "Hungary's Role In The 1989 Revolutions," BBC News, May 9, 2009.

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Poland

• Adam Michnik, "Solidarity Under Strain," Guardian, November 9, 2009.

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Romania

•   "Exhumed Romania Body Is Nicolae Ceausescu, Tests Show," BBC News, November 3, 2010.

•   "Ceausescu Execution 'Avoided Mob Lynching,'" BBC News, December 25, 2009.

•   "Daring To Question The Romanian Revolution," BBC News, December 21, 2009.

•   Nick Thorpe, "Romania's Bloody Revolution Remembered," BBC News, December 16, 2009.

• Oana Lungescu, "Romania Securiate Legacy 20 Years After Revolution," BBC News, December 10, 2009.

• Lucian Dan Teodorovici, "Reality Tempers Joy Of Romania's 1989," Guardian, November 10, 2009.

• Donald G. McNeil, Jr., "Romania's Revolution Of 1989: An Enduring Enigma," New York Times, December 31, 1999.

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Soviet Union

•   Brian Hanrahan, "Gorbachev Defends Controversial Legacy," BBC News, September 20, 2009.

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Articles

• George Packer, "Comment: November 9th," New Yorker (November 16, 2009).

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Web-Sites

• Making The History Of 1989 -- The Fall Of Communism In Eastern Europe:

• Revolutions Of 1989 -- Wikipedia:  An entry from the on-line encyclopedia.

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Audio And Video Sites

• "Romania 1989: Ceausescu Executed," Panorama, BBC, December 21, 2009.

•   "John Simpson Returns To 1989, Part One," BBC World Service, October 15, 2009.

• "John Simpson Returns To 1989, Part Two," BBC World Service, November 19, 2009.

• "John Simpson Returns To 1989, Part Three," BBC World Service, December 23, 2009.

• "1989: Children Of The Revolution," BBC World Service, October 6, 2009.