Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2001
Publication Source
Theory and Society
Volume
30
Issue
4
Start Page
539
Last Page
589
DOI
10.1023/A:1011817231681
Abstract
The year 1989 was rife with resonant political anniversaries in both Eastern Europe and China ̶ as well as being the two-hundredth anniversary of France’s first great democratic revolution. Democracy and the future of socialism were on many peoples’ minds. Communist elites hoped to use these anniversaries as opportunities to celebrate the triumphs of the last forty years, but dissidents found these anniversaries even more auspicious as occasions to condemn “really existing” socialism. As a result, popular revolts erupted from Beijing to Berlin.
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Recommended Citation
Pfaff, S., & Yang, G. (2001). Double-Edged Rituals and the Symbolic Resources of Collective Action: Political Commemorations and the Mobilization of Protest in 1989. Theory and Society, 30 (4), 539-589. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011817231681
Date Posted: 21 November 2013
Comments
NOTE: At the time of publication, author Guobin Yang was affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Currently, he is a faculty member at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.