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The 1980s were years of the beginning or ending of eras. Towards the close of the decade socialism was rejected in a series of largely peaceful revolutions in Eastern Europe and their shock waves reached further afield. In Africa the ideal of democracy was rekindled in many countries, with the overthrow or rejection of dictatorial or one-party regimes. In South Africa apartheid was rejected and its structures began to be dismantled. In many countries citizens talked optimistically of building a new society, recognising that they had crossed watersheds although the territories they were entering were uncharted.
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FitzSimons, D.W. (1996). The Global Pandemic of AIDS. In: Cross, S., Whiteside, A. (eds) Facing up to AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24930-5_2
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