Postcommunist States and Nations
The Czech Republic: A Nation of Velvet
1st Edition
By Rick Fawn
May 01, 2000
Czechoslovakia has captured the nation's imagination throughout the twentieth century. The Allied betrayal of the country to Nazi Germany in 1938 was to demonstrate the appalling consequences of naive appeasement of aggression. The wholesale reform of Soviet communism in the Prague Spring of 1968 ...
Ukraine: Movement without Change, Change without Movement
1st Edition
By Marta Dyczok
May 01, 2000
Ukraine has surprised many international observers. Few anticipated its declaration of independence in 1991 or its determination to move out of Russia's shadow. Dyczok redresses the continuing dearth of information on the country. Aimed at nonspecialists and specialists alike, it presents an ...
Uzbekistan: Transition to Authoritarianism
1st Edition
By Neil J. Melvin
May 01, 2000
Uzbekistan more than any other country in the area is likely to play a critical role in shaping Central Asia's future. Situated at the heart of the region and sharing borders with all the other Central Asian states, Uzbekistan is the most powerful and populous of the new states of Central Asia. In ...
Armenia: At the Crossroads
1st Edition
By Robert Krikorian, Joseph Masih
February 01, 1999
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Armenia has remained on the brink of on the brink of becoming an economic crossroads or an isolated backwater, a democratic or authoritarian state, a peaceful and prosperous country or a nation on the brink of conflict. Armenia's difficult independence is ...
Belarus: A Denationalized Nation
1st Edition
By David Marples
February 01, 1999
In any assessment and understanding of Belarus, the key questions to address include; why has Belarus apparently rejected independence under its first president Alyaksandr Lukashenka, and sought a union with Russia? Why has the government rejected democracy, infringed on the human rights of its ...
Kyrgyzstan: Central Asia's Island of Democracy?
1st Edition
By John Anderson
February 01, 1999
Born out of the collapse of the USSR, Kyrgyzstan has been notable for its struggle to develop a pluralist polity and free market, an attempt that distinguishes it from some of its more authoritarian neighbors. This volume introduces students and businessmen to this most attractive of republics, ...
Poland: The Conquest of History
1st Edition
By George Sanford
February 01, 1999
Poland pioneered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Domestic reformism and the negotiated abdication of ruling elites in 1989 have structured the country's politics in the 1990s. But the division between the communist and Solidarity camps continues to cause problems for a potential reform...