The revolutionary upheavals of 1989/1991 fundamentally changed Europe. While the events were still in full swing, individual images and motifs gained enormous symbolic power and the first master stories emerged. Consciously staged or grown in a communicative way, they still have an impact today. They have also remained highly competitive over the past 30 years. The way we understand and deal with the events of 1989/1991 today is decisively shaped by the representations and interpretations of the past 30 years. The present volume deals with these different and changeable foundations of meaning during the upheaval of 1989/1991 from a European-comparative perspective. Starting with a critical questioning of the concept of revolution, the genesis of image memories as well as controversial places of remembrance and current historical-political instrumentalizations of the upheavals of 1989/1991 in Germany, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia are examined.