Background
Stokes, Gale was born on September 5, 1933 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Howard Gale and Ida Jane (Bassett) Stokes.
(Gale Stokes' The Walls Came Tumbling Down has been one of...)
Gale Stokes' The Walls Came Tumbling Down has been one of the standard interpretations of the East European revolutions of 1989 for many years. It offers a sweeping yet vivid narrative of the two decades of developments that led from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the collapse of communism in 1989. Highlights of that narrative include, among other things, discussions of Solidarity and civil society in Poland, Charter 77 and the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, and the bizarre regime of Romania's Nikolae Ceausescu and his violent downfall. In this second edition, now appropriately subtitled Collapse and Rebirth in Eastern Europe, Stokes not only has revised these portions of the book in the light of recent scholarship, but has added three new chapters covering the post-communist period, including analyses of the unification of Germany and the collapse of the Soviet Union, narratives of the admission of many of the countries of the region to the European Union, and discussion of the unfortunate outcomes of the Wars of Yugoslav Succession in the Western Balkans.
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Stokes, Gale was born on September 5, 1933 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of Howard Gale and Ida Jane (Bassett) Stokes.
Bachelor, Colgate University, 1954. Master of Arts, Indiana University, 1965. Doctor of Philosophy, Indiana University, 1970.
Assistant professor Rice University, Houston, 1968-1975, associate professor, 1975-1980, professor, since 1980. Member advisory board East Europe program Wilson Center, Washington, 1986-1989. Chairman Joint Committee on Eastern Europe, New York City, 1984-1989.
(Gale Stokes' The Walls Came Tumbling Down has been one of...)
Captain United States Air Force, 1954-1963. Member American History Association, American Association Advancement Slavic Studies.
Married Roberta Black, May 5, 1958. Children: John Gale, Karen E.