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Transnational Actors in Central and East European Transitions (Pitt Russian East European)
by Mitchell Orenstein  Publisher Comments When Vladimir Putin claimed “outside forces” were at work during the Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004, it was not just a case of paranoia. In this uprising against election fraud, protesters had been trained in political organization and...
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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism
by Tina Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Pulitzer Prize-winning look at the collapse of Communism in Eastern...
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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Drakulic Publisher Comments Today in Eastern Europe the architectural work of revolution is complete: the old order has been replaced by various forms of free-market economy and de jure democracy.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...
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Eastern Europe in the postwar world
by Thomas W Simons Book News Annotation Simons is a scholar-diplomat now serving as US coordinator for assistance to the new independent states of the former Soviet Union. He has updated this 1991 history and analysis, which is based on a course that he taught at Brown University...
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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...
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The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
by Piotr Stefa Wandycz Publisher Comments The second edition of this distinguished book brings the history of the region up to date. It discusses the events of the post-communist decade of the 1990s and the problems resulting from the transition to democracy and market economy. Taking a thematic...
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Transition in Central and Eastern Europe :implications for EU-LDC relations
by Arie Kuyvenhoven Publisher Comments The transition in Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), bringing in its wake improved trade relations with the European Union (EU), has raised considerable concern in less developed countries (LDCs). Although there has been some discussion of...
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The West and Eastern Europe: Economic Statecraft and Political Change
by Thomas A Baylis Publisher Comments An expert on East European politics and economics analyzes and evaluates Western policies toward the new East European democracies as they struggle to build stable political orders and functioning market economies. He argues that the West must give...
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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe (03 Edition)
by Grzegorz (ed.) Ekiert Publisher Comments Addresses the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism??'s collapse in Europe....
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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom: The Central and East European Publishing Project
by Timothy Garton Ash Publisher Comments The Oxford-based Central and East European Publishing Project was a remarkable initiative to support embattled Central and East European publishers and journals. Throughout the nine years of its existence it helped to punch holes through the cultural...
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Voices from Vilna
by Helaine Shoag 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...
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Making Capitalism Without Capitalists: Class Formation and Elite Struggles in Post-Communist Central Europe
by Gil Eyal Publisher Comments Making Capitalism Without Capitalists offers a new theory of the transition to capitalism. By telling the story of how capitalism is being built in post-communist Central Europe it guides us towards a deeper understanding of the origins of modern...
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Economics of Transition in Eastern Europe
by O Blanchard Publisher Comments Transition in Central and Eastern Europe, as Blanchard points out, has adhered to a U-shaped response in terms of economic output--that is, a sharp decline in output followed by a recovery. Today, most of the countries of Central Europe seem to have...
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Poland's Protracted Transition: Institutional Change and Economic Growth, 1971-1993
by Kazimierz Poznanski Publisher Comments In this book Kazimierz Poznanski offers an integrated study of institutional change in the Polish economy since 1971. He examines the economic peak of the communist phase, the decline of the system, and the post-communist transition since 1989. He...
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Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, Friends
by Lonnie R Johnson Publisher Comments 'This historical survey of Central Europe covers a region that encompasses contemporary Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, and Croatia. Central Europe abandons the Cold War convention of defining Central Europe in...
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Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, 1990-1999 (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
by Joshua L Tucker Publisher Comments This is the first book length study of economic voting outside of established democracies....
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The Changing Landscape in Eastern Europe: A Personal Perspective on Philantropy and Technology Transfer (Europe in Transition)
by Richard E Quandt Publisher Comments This book shows how philanthropy can be a primary force in the transfer of technology in transitional societies. It demonstrates the necessity of retraining of people and how this endeavor is as important as the technology itself. It is essentially about...
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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....
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A Carnival of Revolution: Central Europe 1989
by Padraic Kenney Publisher Comments This is the first history of the revolutions that toppled communism in Europe to look behind the scenes at the grassroots movements that made those revolutions happen. It looks for answers not in the salons of power brokers, not in decrepit economies...
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Marie Louise and the Decadence of the Empire
by Imbert De Saint-aman Publisher Comments Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the...
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