title: Cold Warriors, Cold Feet? America’s Uneven Response To Regime Change in Hungary, 1989
abstract: This thesis endeavors to complicate the narrative of America's role in 1989.Doing so requires looking beyond the countries, like Poland and Germany, that usually take center stage in any retelling of the annus mirabilis.Hungary, instead, is the ideal site for studying what the U.S. did and did not do in service to Bush's stated promise "to help Europe become whole and free." 11Hungary was the first Eastern Bloc country to rush headlong into the democratic breach in 1989, where it was met by an a
journal: DigitalGeorgetown (Georgetown University Library)