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A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, and a Raven
by Slavenka Drakulic
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A wry, cutting deconstruction of the Communist empire by one of Eastern Europe's exceptional authors. Called "a perceptive and amusing social critic, with a wonderful eye for detail" by The Washington Post, Slavenka Drakulic-a native of Croatia-has... (read more)

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Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
by Peter Demetz
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Prague is at the core of everything both wonderful and terrible in Western history, but few people truly understand this city's unique culture. In Prague in Black and Gold, Peter Demetz strips away sentimentalities and distortions and shows how Czechs... (read more)

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Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West
by David Rieff
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In a shocking and deeply disturbing tour de force, David Rieff, reporting from the Bosnia war zone and from Western capitals and United Nations headquarters, indicts the West and the United Nations for standing by and doing nothing to stop the genocide... (read more)

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War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation
War and Change in the Balkans: Nationalism, Conflict and Cooperation
by Brad K. Blitz
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A contemporary history of the Balkans from the break-up of Yugoslavia to the present day.... (read more)

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Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War and Intervention 1990-2005
Balkan Inferno: Betrayal, War and Intervention 1990-2005
by Wes Johnson
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From the final chapter: at an Athens cocktail party in the fall of 2003 a young officer from the US embassy said that his first assignment, in 1993-4, had been Tirana, "We could do anything we wanted. In fact, they would like to be our fifty-first state.... (read more)

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From Dissident Party to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
From Dissident Party to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989-1994
by Bernard Ivan Tamas
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Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.... (read more)

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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetr
by Peter Demetz
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A dramatic account of life in Czechoslovakias great capital during the Nazi Protectorate  With this successor book to Prague in Black and Gold, his account of more than a thousand years of history in the great Central European capital, Peter Demetz... (read more)

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A Romantic Education
A Romantic Education
by Patricia Hampl
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Golden Prague seemed mostly gray when Patricia Hampl first went there in quest of her Czech heritage. In that bleak time, no one could have predicted the political upheaval awaiting Communist Europe and the city of Kafka and Rilke. Hampl's subsequent... (read more)

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The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century: On Communism, Post-Communism and Democracy
The Great Shock at the End of a Short Century: On Communism, Post-Communism and Democracy
by Ion Iliescu
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This book depicts, from the uniquely personal perspective of Ion Iliescu, former president of Romania, the historical drama of the global clash of political systems in the 20th century.... (read more)

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Czechoslova: The Short Goodbye
Czechoslova: The Short Goodbye
by Abby Innes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-326) and index.... (read more)

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