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Sunday Times Magazine May 3rd 2009
1989 Special Issue
Historians may come to judge 1989 as an epic chapter in the story of mankind. It was a year of epochal magnitude, the likes of which the world had never seen. More than a billion people clamoured for democracy, scores of new nations were conceived, and repressive regimes were swept away on a tide of human rights. It took a century for the Roman Empire to burn, yet in just one year the great evils of communism and apartheid that bad ruled a fifth of humanity began to crumble. It was the dawn of the world wide web, superpower partnership and the dismantling of nuclear arsenals, but also the export of Islamic fundamentalism and the return of ethnic cleansing
Brian Moynaban chronicles the crucial events of the year the world changed and maps the march of democracy
David Smith, economics editor, crunches the numbers and finds surprising shifts in our attitudes and values over the past 20 years
Spectrum A 16-page photographic special that captures the most Earth-shattering moments of an extraordinary 12 months
Bryan Appleyard reviews the lightning progress we have made down the information superhighway, and asks: are we better for it?
DID YOU KNOW? Including, the sexy teen-queen who inspired The Little Mermaid ; and the Hungarian prime minister who was executed for seeking political reform
TWENTY YEARS ON As Dynasty’s per-bitch Alexis, Joan Collins personified the glitzy 1980s. Today, she reveals why the show had to go the same way as the decade of greed
RELATIVE VALUES Gerry Conlon of the Guilford Four and his cousin Vincent Maguire of the Maguire seven – Victims of two of Britain’s most notorious miscarriages of justice
64 pages. All our magazines are first day issues. This issue is in very good condition for age.
