The essay collection reminds and invites us to think about the legacy, aspirations and hopes that were connected to democratization and European integration. It is worth to revisit a common European heritage and to assess what we can learn from democratic revolutions in 1989 and 2004 to move forward to build a better European future.
The contributions are collected from the project consortium of the EUritage Project and edited by Adam Balcer. The essays present different national perspectives on the events selected perspective connected to 1989 and EU Enlargement in 2004 and discuss their relevance, meaning and impact today. The collection also includes the project’s two winning student essays that reflect on how the years of 1989 and 2004 in Central Europe impacted their lives
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Everything started in Gdańsk | Aleksandra Dulkiewicz
Central Europe in the European Union and beyond. Legacy of 1989 and 2004 | Adam Balcer
Hungary at the crossroads: challenges of democratic backslide and Euroscepticism | István Hegedűs
The history of post-communism in a nutshell: Czechia after 1989 | Michal Klíma
Unified but different? Assessment of the benefits and costs of German reunification | Katrin Boettger and Simone Klee
Central Europe, the EU and I | Marie Kepler
The breakthrough moments of 1989 and 2004 – how freedom brought us Wrocław back | Tomasz Kubiak
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