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Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy by John Fund Publisher Comments The Florida Fiasco of 2000, with hanging chads, butterfly ballots and Supreme Court intervention, forced Americans to confront an ugly reality. The U.S. has the sloppiest election systems of any industrialized nation, so sloppy that at least eight of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in the Hague by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Drakulic introduces readers to the accused individuals from the Bosnian conflict of the early 1990s--from the infamous to the unknown to the unquestionably guilty--seeking to understand the people behind the horrific crimes.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Diary of a Political Idiot: Normal Life in Belgrade by Jasmina Tesanovic Publisher Comments labeled a traitor by nationalist Serbians because she opposes the war in Kosovo, a dissident journalist chronicles the intimate details that haunt her daily life.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments A true portrait of one of the world's most chaotic and beautiful regions that explains why violence has always occurred there and why it may continue for years to come. The vast and mountainous area that makes up the Balkans is rife with... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Final Revolution: The Resistance Church & the Collapse of Communism by George Weigel Publisher Comments The collapse of communism in central and eastern Europe--the Revolution of 1989--was a singularly stunning event in a century already known for the unexpected. How did people divided for two generations by an Iron Curtain come so suddenly to dance... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Cafe Europa: Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, "in everyday life, the revolution consists much... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (Networking Council Series) by Mitchell A. Orenstein Publisher Comments After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries of East-Central Europe embarked on a journey to transform themselves into democratic capitalist societies. Their governments searched for strategies that would allow them to pursue radical market reforms... (read more) List Price $37.25 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rebirth of History: Eastern Europe in the Age of Democracy by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments A newly revised and updated edition of an award-winning BBC correspondent's magisterial history of the Balkan region This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True Tales from Here and There by Gabe G Kubichek Publisher Comments TRUE TALES From Here and There is a collection of stories, some biographical, some autobiographical; all of them having been safely stored in the memory bank of the author for years. He was inspired by his father's adventure in Russia and specifically in... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe (Soviet and East European Studies) by J F Brown Publisher Comments In praise of Surge to Freedom: The End of Communist Rule in Eastern Europe: "Nobody has yet produced a more perceptive and inclusive work on the events of what is arguably the most important year of our lifetimes. This book is essential for anyone... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Privatisation, Politics, & Economic Performance in Hungary by Zoltan Antal Mokos Publisher Comments The first study to place politicking at the centre of the privatisation process.... (read more) List Price $134.75 Your price: $5.98 Used - Hardcover
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They Would Never Hurt a Fly by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments "Who were they? Ordinary people like you or meandmdash;or monsters?andrdquo; asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka Drakulic as she sets out to understand the people behind the horrific crimes committed during the war that tore apart Yugoslavia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eastern Europe for Beginners by Paul Beck Synopsis Traces the history of the region from World War I to the present, and describes influential events, movements, and individuals.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Russia Abroad: Prague and the Russian Diaspora, 1918-1939 by Catherine Andreyev Publisher Comments In the wake of the Russian Revolution and the ensuing civil war, approximately 1.5 million Russians fled their country. Many settled in Prague, where they were welcomed and supported by the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic. This book presents the first... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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Cafe Europa Life After Communism by Slavenka Drakulic Publisher Comments Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free market economy and de jure democracy. But as Slavenka Drakulic observes, in everyday life, the revolution consists much... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Twilight of the Idols: Recollections of a Lost Yugoslavia: An Essay by Ales Debeljak Publisher Comments Memoir. Translated from the Slovenian by Michael Biggins.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Budapest: A Cultural History (Cityscapes) by Bob Dent Publisher Comments The views of Budapest by the River Danube are unparalleled in Europe. On one side the Buda Hills reach almost to the riverside, with Castle Hill and Gell�rt Hill offering outstanding panoramas. Pest, linked to Buda by a series of imposing bridges... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West by David Rieff Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Voices from Vilna by Helaine S Greenberg Publisher Comments To my great joy, I found poignant letters in my family home describing my father's and his family's life and current events from 1930 to 1940 in Vilnius, Lithuania. On a roots trip there in 2000, the letters were shown to the Director of the Vilna Gaon... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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