Choose two of the five revolutionary cases (excluding the Ukrainian case) in Kenney’s
book 1989. Use the two sets of documents in the book (and the additional documents I add to
some of those cases) as the basis to compare the two revolutions.
You should focus on the goals, the methods, and the attitudes (toward their governments/opponents,
fellow countrymen, or foreign influence friendly or unfriendly) of the activists. Special attention
should be paid to their views on democracy (what it means, what it should achieve/entail in
substance, what its values is) and the pace/extent/methods of the desirable change (Revolution?
Reform? Is violence necessary?), and their self-understanding (their roles, their position in the
larger society, the prospect of success, the effectiveness of the methods, etc.). Note both
similarities and differences, and try to account for them.