Peaceful Revolution (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Peaceful Revolution" in English language version.

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148nytimes.com

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43tagesspiegel.de

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41bundestag.de

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33jstor.org

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32bpb.de

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21europa.eu

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apnews.com (Global: 101^st place; English: 62^nd place)

Starcevi, Nesha (8 November 1989) East German Government Resigns, Pro-Reform Marches Continue Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine in AP News. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

bbc.com (Global: 26^th place; English: 23^rd place)

Haines, Gavin (6 November 2014) East Germany's trade in human beings on BBC News Online. Retrieved 30 July 2019
Berlin Wall blunderer Guenter Schabowski dies at 86 on BBC News, 1 November 2015. Retrieved 30 August 2019

books.google.com (Global: 3^rd place; English: 3^rd place)

Vilasi, Antonella Colonna (2015). The History of the Stasi. Bloomington, Indiana: AuthorHouse. ISBN 9781504937054. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
Bromley, Joyce E. (2017) German Reunification: Unfinished Business. Abingdon-on-Thames:Routledge on Google Books. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
Dale, Gareth (2006) Popular Protest in East Germany page 148 Routledge Retrieved 25 August 2019
Kramsch, Claire (1993) – Foreign Language Study – 295 pages Context and Culture in Language Teaching, p 258. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Childs, David; Popplewell, Richard (2016) The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service, p. 202. Berlin: Springer. Retrieved 28 August 2019
Weinke, Annette (2018). Law, History, and Justice: Debating German State Crimes in the Long Twentieth Century. New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books. p. 193. ISBN 978-1-7892-0105-5. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
Orlow, Dietrich (2016) A History of Modern Germany: 1871 to Present. London: Routledge. Retrieved 30 August 2019

books.google.de (Global: 88^th place; English: 8,922^nd place)

Alexander, Martin S. (1998) Knowing Your Friends: Intelligence Inside Alliances and Coalitions from 1914 to the Cold War. London: Frank Cass. Retrieved 22 August 2019

bpb.de (Global: 1,927^th place; English: 4,795^th place)

Wehr, Laura (14 December 2016) Vergessene Migrationsgeschichte/n? Die Ausreise aus der DDR in der Erinnerung von Übersiedler-Eltern und -Kindern on Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung website. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
Hertle, Hans-Hermann (2018-01-08). ""Totalschaden" - Das Finale Grande der DDR-Volkswirtschaft 1989. Paralyse und Untergang - Stasi-Analysen zum ökonomischen Niedergang der DDR". www.bpb.de. Der letzte Ausweg, den die Ökonomen am 31. Oktober 1989 im Politbüro vorschlugen, lief entsprechend der ersten Überlegungen zum Geheimkonzept darauf hinaus, der Bundesregierung für neue Kredite und eine erweiterte wirtschaftliche Kooperation die Mauer als letztes Tauschmittel anzubieten.

bundespraesident.de (Global: 4,884^th place; English: low place)

Der Bundespräsident. The 25th anniversary of the peaceful revolution, 9 October 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2019

bundestag.de (Global: 830^th place; English: 2,055^th place)

Sator, Klaus (2 October 2014) Die Montagsdemonstrationen in der DDR 1989/90. Deutscher Bundestag. Wissenschaftliche Dienste. Retrieved 27 August 2019

cambridge.org (Global: 209^th place; English: 151^st place)

Lohmann, Susanne (1994) "The Dynamics of Informational Cascades: The Monday Demonstrations in Leipzig, East Germany, 1989–91" in World Politics, Volume 47, Issue 1, October 1994, pp. 42–101

commonslibrary.org (Global: low place; English: 9,101^st place)

Engler, Mark; Engler, Paul (2023-12-03). "From the Berlin Wall to Today — Lessons for Harnessing the Moment of the Whirlwind". The Commons Social Change Library. Retrieved 2024-09-14.

ddr-museum.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

DDR Museum. The magazine "Sputnik" as a paper based ambassador of the USSR. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
East-West relationships between minimum exchange and welcome money on DDR Museum website. Retrieved 31 August 2019

dw.com (Global: 205^th place; English: 320^th place)

Illmer, Andreas (18 March 2010) on DW.com. Retrieved 8 August 1990
Wood, Tanya (2 October 2009) Historic East German refugee train rolls again on DW Retrieved 25 August 2019
Schaum, Marlis (7 January 2009) West German TV: the class enemy in the front room on DW.com. Retrieved 26 August 2019
Fong, Diana (3 June 2009) China's pro-democracy protests struck hope and fear in East Germany on DW Retrieved 26 August 2019

efurt-web.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

Raßloff, Steffen (27 October 2012) Besetzung Stasi-Bezirksverwaltung 1989. Die Angst überwunden. Denkmale in Erfurt (69): Mit der Besetzung der ersten Stasi-Bezirksverwaltung gab Erfurt am 4. Dezember 1989 ein DDR-weites Signal. Beitrag der Serie Denkmale in Erfurt aus der Thüringer Allgemeine on www.efurt-web.de^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 27 August 2019

erfurt-web.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

Raßloff, Steffen (27 October 2012) Besetzung Stasi-Bezirksverwaltung 1989. Die Angst überwunden. Denkmale in Erfurt (69): Mit der Besetzung der ersten Stasi-Bezirksverwaltung gab Erfurt am 4. Dezember 1989 ein DDR-weites Signal. Beitrag der Serie Denkmale in Erfurt aus der Thüringer Allgemeine on www.efurt-web.de^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 27 August 2019

europa.eu (Global: 62^nd place; English: 100^th place)

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On this day: 27 June – the Iron Curtain was breached. European Parliament, 26 June 2009. Retrieved 8 August 2019

ft.com (Global: 193^rd place; English: 127^th place)

Bryant, Chris and Stefan Wagstyl, Stefan (9 May 2009) Outrage at poll that breached Berlin Wall in Financial Times. Retrieved 23 August 2019

ghi-dc.org (Global: 9,486^th place; English: 8,855^th place)

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The Hopes of East German Refugees (August 8, 1989) on German History in Documents and Images (GHDI) website. Retrieved 25 August 2019

hdg.de (Global: 9,869^th place; English: low place)

"Geschichte der Bundesrepublik". www.hdg.de (in German). Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 29 June 2018.

huffpost.com (Global: 558^th place; English: 364^th place)

Feffer, John (29 July 2014) The Monday Demonstrations in HuffPost Retrieved 27 August 2019

independent.co.uk (Global: 46^th place; English: 29^th place)

Paterson, Tony (7 November 2014) Fall of the Berlin Wall: The guard who opened the gate – and made history in The Independent. Retrieved 31 August 2019

iol.co.za (Global: 1,191^st place; English: 652^nd place)

Bryer, Keith (11 November 2015) East Germany provides bleak ideological lesson in Business Report. Retrieved 22 August 2019

jstor.org (Global: 23^rd place; English: 15^th place)

Kramer, Mark (2011) ((December 2011) "Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective: The Demise of the Soviet Bloc". In The Journal of Modern History 83 (December 2011), pp. 788–854. Retrieved 22 August 2019
Baylis, Thomas A. (1986) Explaining the GDR's Economic Strategy in International Organization, Vol. 40, No. 2, "Power, Purpose, and Collective Choice: Economic Strategy in Socialist States" (Spring, 1986), pp. 381–420. Retrieved 22 August 2019
Torpey, John (1995) "The Abortive Revolution Continues: East German Civil-Rights Activists since Unification" in Theory and Society Vol. 24, No. 1 (February 1995), pp. 105–134

lr-online.de (Global: 8,324^th place; English: low place)

Wahlfälschung 1989 Die Angst der SED vor tausend Nein-Stimmen, 9 May 2019 in LR online. Retrieved 23 August 2019

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

Keller, Bill (26 October 1989) Gorbachev, in Finland, Disavows Any Right of Regional Intervention. in New York Times. Retrieved 22 August 2019
Protzman, Ferdinand (15 May 1989) (East Germany Losing Its Edge in New York Times Retrieved 22 August 2019
Schmemann, Serge (11 September 1989) Hungary allows 7000 East Germans to emigrate West in New York Times. Retrieved 24 August 2019
Schmemann, Serge (20 September 1989) Opposition forms in East Germany in New York Times. Retrieved 25 August 2019
Schmemann, Serge (9 October 1989) Security Forces Storm Protester in East Germany in New York Times Retrieved 27 August 2019
Schmemann, Serge (8 November 1989) East Germany's Cabinet Resigns, Bowing to Protest and Mass Flight in New York Times. Retrieved 29 August 2019
"Clamor in Europe; Egon Krenz's 46 Days as East Berlin Party Chief" in New York Times, 4 December 1989. Retrieved 28 August 2019
Schmemann. Serge (10 November 1989) Clamor in the East; East Germany opens Frontier to the West for Migration or Travel; Thousands Cross in New York Times. Retrieved 31 August 2019

orte-der-einheit.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

Gethsemanekirche: The Gentle Trouble Spot. In: Sites of Unity (Haus der Geschichte), 2022.

plauen.de (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Warum Plauen?".

rferl.org (Global: 733^rd place; English: 555^th place)

Jeszenszky, Géza (7 December 2009) Hungary And The Reunification Of Germany. Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty website. Retrieved 24 August 2019

sagepub.com (Global: 609^th place; English: 451^st place)

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Mark Keck-Szajbel, Mark; Stola, Dariusz (11 March 2015) "Crossing the Borders of Friendship: Mobility across Communist Borders" in East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, Vol. 29, issue 1, pp. 92–95. Retrieved 24 August 2015

spiegel.de (Global: 87^th place; English: 363^rd place)

Hawley, Charles (7 May 2009) 99 Percent for the Communists: How the End of East Germany Began in Spiegel Online International. Retrieved 23 August 2019
Iken, Katja (24 October 2011) Häftlingsdeals mit der DDR Menschen gegen Maisladungen in Spiegel Online. Retrieved 30 July 2019
Sontheimer, Michael; Supp, Barbara (4 July 2008) "The Cold War's Forgotten Victims: Avenging East Germans Killed in Bulgaria" in Spiegel Online International. Retrieved 24 August 2019
How 'Gorbi' Spoiled East Germany's 40th Birthday Party on Spiegel Online International 7 October 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2019
Curry, Andrew (9 October 2009) We Are the People' A Peaceful Revolution in Leipzig in Spiegel Online Retrieved 20 August 2019
"Der Spiegel 42/1989".

sueddeutsche.de (Global: 267^th place; English: 1,211^th place)

Frank, Michael (19 August 2009). "Mit dem Picknickkorb in die Freiheit" [Pan-European Picnic: With the picnic basket to freedom]. Süddeutsche Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 4 June 2024.

tagesspiegel.de (Global: 503^rd place; English: 1,578^th place)

Walter Momper (ruling mayor of Berlin in 1989) expected the Berlin Wall to open: "We expected that one day the storm would come across the border from behind, actually, since Otto von Habsburg and the Pan-Europa-Union had the pan-European picnic on the border between Hungary and Austria on August 19, 1989 in Sopron. Hundreds of them came. It was stupid that people from the GDR should cross the border via Hungary and Austria. if there was a border crossing directly with them." In: Interview with Walter Momper, 9.11.2019
Schlegel, Matthias (28 October 2009) The beginning of the end of East Germany in Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 26 August 2019
Leber, Sebastian (4 November 2014) Aufstand auf dem Berliner Alexanderplatz in Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved 28 August 1990

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Walker, Shaun (18 August 2019) How a pan-European picnic brought down the iron curtain on Guardian Online. Retrieved 20 August 2019
Tomforde, Anna (19 Oct 1989) East Germans oust Honecker in The Guardian Retrieved 27 August 2019
Nelsson, Richard (10 Jul 2019) Gorbachev's vision for a 'common European home'- archive, July 1989. Retrieved 22 August 2019
Nelsson, Richard, et al. (12 June 2019) Snipping away at the Iron Curtain: when Hungary opened its Austrian border – archive, 1989 in Guardian Online. Retrieved 24 August 2019
van der Vat, Dan (19 Sep 2010) Bärbel Bohley Obituary in Guardian Online. Retrieved 25 August 2019

thelocal.de (Global: 7,650^th place; English: 5,250^th place)

How ordinary people smashed the Stasi in The Local.de, 4 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2019

unhcr.org (Global: 2,079^th place; English: 1,696^th place)

States Parties to the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol (PDF) on the UNHCR website, Retrieved 25 August 2019

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Mastny, Vojtech (1998) The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980/81 and the End of the Cold War Archived 2017-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2019
Starcevi, Nesha (8 November 1989) East German Government Resigns, Pro-Reform Marches Continue Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine in AP News. Retrieved 30 August 2019.

wilsoncenter.org (Global: 3,534^th place; English: 2,393^rd place)

Mastny, Vojtech (1998) The Soviet Non-Invasion of Poland in 1980/81 and the End of the Cold War Archived 2017-07-06 at the Wayback Machine. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (PDF). Retrieved 22 August 2019

Peaceful Revolution (English Wikipedia)

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bpb.de (Global: 1,927th place; English: 4,795th place)

bundespraesident.de (Global: 4,884th place; English: low place)

bundestag.de (Global: 830th place; English: 2,055th place)

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commonslibrary.org (Global: low place; English: 9,101st place)

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tagesspiegel.de (Global: 503rd place; English: 1,578th place)

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