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Magic Lantern : the Revolution of '89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague , With New Afterword (93 Edition) by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that define a history moment, written by a brilliant witness who was also a participant in epochal events. Whether covering Poland's first free parliamentary elections--in which Solidarity found itself in the... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Balkan Ghosts a Journey Through History by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments From the assassination that set off World War I to the ethnic warfare sweeping Bosnia and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the 20th century--the place where terrorism and genocide were first practiced as tools of policy. This enthralling... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Geoffrey Swain Publisher Comments This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The last chapters focus on the inclusion of most of the Eastern European states into... (read more) Your price: $35.25 New - Trade Paper
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West Publisher Comments 'Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West\'s classic examination of the history, people, and politics of Yugoslavia illuminates a region that is still a focus of international concern. A magnificent blend of travel journal, cultural commentary,... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Eastern Europe Since 1945 by Geoffrey Swain Publisher Comments This essential text has been fully revised, updated and expanded to take account of new material and events since the publication of the third edition. The last chapters focus on the inclusion of most of the Eastern European states into... (read more) List Price $111.50 Your price: $99.95 New - Hardcover
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Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America by Kati Marton Publisher Comments You are opening a Pandora's box, Marton was warned when she filed for her family's secret police fi les in Budapest. But her family history -- during both the Nazi and the Communist periods -- was too full of shadows. The files revealed terrifying truths:... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Modern Library Chronicles #32: Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment by Stephen Kotkin Publisher Comments Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history's most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded-and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays (Post-Communist Cultural Studies) by Dubravka Ugresic Publisher Comments A funny and cynical collection of essays, observations, and sketches denouncing the perversions of political and cultural life in Croatia.<P>The Culture of Lies shows us the banality and brutality of nationalism and the way that nationalistic... (read more) Your price: $33.95 New - Trade Paper
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Balkans : Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999 (99 Edition) by Misha Glenny Publisher Comments "The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski Publisher Comments By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolution 1989: The Fall of the Soviet Empire by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments From the author of Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution comes a revealing new account of the collapse of the Soviet Union's European empire during months of largely peaceful revolution that profoundly changed the world. At the start of... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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Pity of War : Explaining World War 1 (99 Edition) by Niall Ferguson Publisher Comments In The Pity of War, Niall Ferguson makes a simple and provocative argument: that the human atrocity known as the Great War was entirely England’s fault. Britain, according to Ferguson, entered into war based on naïve assumptions of German aims&... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Green Shirts and the Others by Nicholas M. Nagy-talavera Book News Annotation The late (January 2000) Nagy-Talavera survived Auschwitz and Siberian labor camps and became a specialist on the history of Hungary and Romania before and during World War II. He explores the role of Fascist movementsthe Arrow Cross in Hungary and the... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Democracy and the Market : Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (91 Edition) by Adam Przeworski Publisher Comments The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a worldwide movement toward political democracy and economic rationality. Never have so many people experimented with democratic institutions. At the same time, traditional... (read more) List Price $37.99 Your price: $29.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bluebird by Vesna Maric Publisher Comments For Vesna Maric, the war begins when the machine-gun fire in the distance sounds like a sewing machine. As it comes closer, her family's anxiety grows, prompting them to send her and her sister to Britain via bus. The Bosnian women who board the bus for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Heroic Present: Life Among the Gypsies by Jan Yoors Publisher Comments As a boy of twelve, Jan Yoors fulfilled many an adventurous youth's fantasy when he left his comfortable Belgian home to live and travel with a tribe, or kumpania, of Gypsies. Adopted into the extended family of Pulika, Yoors passed his days with the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Yiddishland by Gerard Silvain Synopsis This unique book is an unforgettable journey into the heart of yiddishland, a mythical and real land that has never appeared on a map of the world, but whose frontiers have forged rivers, crossed oceans and spanned continents. Although, tragically, it no... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Eastward to Tartary (Vintage Departures) by Robert D Kaplan Publisher Comments Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed (91 Edition) 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 $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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