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Introduction / Wlodzimierz Borodziej, Stanislav Holubec, and Joachim von Puttkamer -- Groping in the dark : expectations and predictions, 1988-1991 / Philipp Ther -- Catalysts of the collapse and of the transition, 1989-1990 / Mary Elise Sarotte -- Poland and the collapse of the patron in 1989-90 : as seen from the Polish Embassy in Moscow / Wlodzimierz Borodziej -- Tea with the primate : at the roots of political conflict in Poland / Joachim von Puttkamer -- Czechoslovakia's year of decision : from the socialist revolution of 1989 to the "real" revolution of 1990 / James Krapfl -- "Talkin' bout a revolution" : on the social memory of 1989 in Hungary / Éva Kovács -- A transition to what and whose democracy? : 1990 in Bulgaria and Romania / Bogdan C. Iacob -- When the Slovenian Spring turned into a hot summer / Marko Zajc -- 1990 : building democracy in Yugoslavia and the danger of war / Marie Janine Calic -- Transforming industry : on the corporate origins of post-socialist nostalgia in Poland / Joanna Wawrzyniak -- German reunification and the dynamics of migration / Tim Schanetzky -- The party is over : the identities and biographies of Czechoslovak and East German (post)communists in the year 1990 / Stanislav Holubec -- Poland, the German question, and German unification, 1989-1991 / Wlodzimierz Borodziej -- The German question and its European solution / Wilfried Loth.