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Christian Caryl

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History & Biography

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1470879530 (ISBN13: 9781470879532)

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I knew very little about 1979 and surrounding times, so learned a lot.I but the premise that the various leaders/groups featured here (John Paul IIs visit probably the biggest stretch) fundamentally changed the world they were in in ways that we're still feeling today.I don't buy the notion that there's some unity to the five storylines (and I think the Afghanistan line generally gets short shrift)A decent book, nothing special. By the mid 1970s, the expectation was that revolutions were secular and left-wing (probably inevitably Marxist), and that people would support the continuation of the welfare state and social liberalism. 1979 saw the stage taken by Deng Xiaoping, Thatcher, Ayatollah Khomeini and John Paul II, confounding these political truisms and setting up the next thirty years. Caryl is extremely good at explaining the intricate maneuvers by which these figures came to power, and how ripples from their actions spread out to Afghanistan, Taiwan, Polish shipyards and Northern Ireland. The biggest lesson was that concentrating on preventing Marxist Revolutions and ignoring or suppressing disgruntled people created far more dangerous threats.

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