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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © Kristina Spohr 2019

      Cover design by Heike Schüssler

      Kristina Spohr asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      Maps by Martin Brown

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      Source ISBN: 9780008280086

      Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008280109

      Version: 2019-09-11

       Dedication

      For my godchildren

      Anna Lisa (*1997)

      Daniel (*2004)

      James (*2007)

      Clio (*2013)

      born into the post-Wall world

       Epigraph

      If 1989 was the year of sweeping away, 1990 must become the year of building anew.

      James A. Baker, 1990

      We don’t care what others say about us. The only thing we really care about is a good environment for developing ourselves. So long as history eventually proves the superiority of the Chinese socialist system, that’s enough.

      Deng Xiaoping, 1989

      France is our homeland, Europe is our future.

      François Mitterrand, 1987

      Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

      Mikhail Gorbachev, 1991

      Politics needs a sense of the possible, also of what is acceptable to others.

      Helmut Kohl, 2009

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

      Dedication

      Epigraph

List of Maps

       Introduction

1 Reinventing Communism: Russia and China

2 Toppling Communism: Poland and Hungary

3 Reuniting Germany, Dissolving Eastern Europe

4 Securing Germany in the Post-Wall World

       5 Building a Europe ‘Whole and Free’

       6 ‘A New World Order’

       7 Russian Revolution

       8 ‘Dawn of a New Era’

       9 Glimpsing a ‘Pacific Century’

       Epilogue: Post Wall, Post Square: A World Remade?

       Abbreviations

       Footnotes

       Notes

       Index

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Kristina Spohr

       About the Publisher

       Maps

       Cold War Europe, 1985

       Post Wall Europe, 1992

       Europe ‘Reunified’ within EU and NATO

       The Soviet Union’s Sphere of Influence, 1985

       The Post Soviet Space and the Remaining Communist Countries, 2015

       China’s Economic Reach, 2015

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