TY - BOOK AU - Meyer,Michael TI - The year that changed the world: the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall SN - 9781416558453 (alk. paper) AV - DJK50 .M49 2009 U1 - 943.0009/048 22 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Scribner KW - Meyer, Michael, KW - Communism KW - Europe, Eastern KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Germany (East) KW - Social movements KW - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - 1945-1989 KW - Fellow KW - Berlin Prize Fellow KW - Class of Spring 1999 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Genesis -- The Wall -- Democracy on the Danube -- A miraculous conversion -- Parallel universes -- The Hungarian connection -- High noon -- Déjeuner sur l'herbe, or Hieronymus Bosch's Hell -- The great escape -- Vortex of change -- A kiss of death -- The fall -- Aftermath -- Denouement ER -