From Yalta to glasnost

the dismantling of Stalin's empire

Agnes HellerFerenc Fehér

The momentous events of 1989, bringing the disintegration of Stalin's empire in Eastern Europe, were the culmination of a long revolution against the post-war Yalta settlement. This book is in part a dramatic chronicle of that long process, in part a commentary on it. Its authors were themselves entangled in the history they describe until their forced emigration from Hungary. As commentators since, their reflections have never been solely academic.