HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Hungarian Socialist Party, Brezhnev Doctrine, Execution By Firing Squad
Document Summary
Collapse of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. All over eastern europe, communist collapsed 2 years earlier (1989) 1988: gorbachev repudiated brezhnev doctrine (socialist can and should intervene if threatened) Poland jan 1989 through an election gorbachev did not respond. Hungary: communist party voted itself out of existence, remerged as hungarian. East germany: dismantling of berlin wall, 1989. All over eastern europe, communism ended peacefully, many argued that it was result of massacre that took place in china 6 mnths earlier . 1 exception: romania communist leader, nicholai / wife were executed by firing squad, broadcasted. Globalization driven partly by technological changes (especially digitalization, computers, information revolution), partly by critical historic changes in methods of. Capitalist production specifically, shift from fordist model to post-fordist methods of flexible accumulation phenomenon of contracting out. Since industrial revolution, capitalist economic production had been modelled along the assembly line: workers produce a product from start to finish.
