GEOG 122 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Guided Democracy, Anna Politkovskaya, The Guardian Weekly
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Lecture 29: after the fall: shock therapy, gangster capitalism, and the post-socialist market in eastern europe. Gini coeicient of income inequality at 50 (canada 32,usa 40) Life expectancy for men fell from 64 to 57 years (now 60); for women it fell from 74 to 71. Break up and break away of e. european states, and internal republics of the soviet union (1989-91) Any dissent inside soviet union or in satellite states suppressed. 1968 prague spring of alexander dubcek ended by. 1980 polish solidarity movement led by lech walensa squashed internally by wojciech jaruzelski. Relaxing of media controls and multiparty elections. June 4th, 1989, poland votes out communist government. November, 1989, (new) east german leader opens up border gates between e and w berlin (fall of the berlin wall) Czechoslovakia the velvet revolution vaclav havel (the country splits in 1993) Romania, nicolai ceau escu and his wife summarily executed, christmas day, 1989.
