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The former Eastern Bloc is often perceived as a gray region with prefabricated buildings and its fourwheeled products are usually compared to shoe boxes Klaus Schameitat decided to abolish these prejudices by presenting us with the exceptional variety of vehicles developed behind the iron curtain some of which still exist today To achieve this he not only traveled to the former GDR but he also visited almost all the countries of the Eastern Bloc for more than 40 yearsBig Americanlooking sedans come across rearengined aircooled curiosities monstrous transport vehicles dream of a better life on a scrapyard and a Wartburg races against a Żuk van but not on the road both vehicles were converted into draisines In this beautiful photo book the East is represented as an unusual colorful elegant and sometimes simply astonishing regionThe highlights more than 800 documentary photos mostly of everyday cars concise model descriptions a wide variety of cars trucks buses and trains of all kinds from more than 60 manufacturers photographed in 20 Eastern European countries classified by country with informative maps and introductory texts Appendices include abbreviations and the main products of the manufacturers
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The former Eastern Bloc is often perceived as a gray region with prefabricated buildings and its fourwheeled products are usually compared to shoe boxes Klaus Schameitat decided to abolish these prejudices by presenting us with the exceptional variety of vehicles developed behind the iron curtain some of which still exist today To achieve this he not only traveled to the former GDR but he also visited almost all the countries of the Eastern Bloc for more than 40 yearsBig Americanlooking sedans come across rearengined aircooled curiosities monstrous transport vehicles dream of a better life on a scrapyard and a Wartburg races against a Żuk van but not on the road both vehicles were converted into draisines In this beautiful photo book the East is represented as an unusual colorful elegant and sometimes simply astonishing regionThe highlights more than 800 documentary photos mostly of everyday cars concise model descriptions a wide variety of cars trucks buses and trains of all kinds from more than 60 manufacturers photographed in 20 Eastern European countries classified by country with informative maps and introductory texts Appendices include abbreviations and the main products of the manufacturers
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Following the Allied victory in World War II the United States turned its efforts to preventing the spread of Communism beyond Eastern Europe Gregory Mitrovich argues however that the policy of containment was only the first step in a clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet powerDrawing on recently declassified US documents Mitrovich reveals a range of previously unknown covert actions launched during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations Through the aggressive use of psychological warfare officials sought to provoke political crisis among key Soviet leaders to incite nationalist tensions within the USSR and to foment unrest across Eastern Europe Mitrovich demonstrates that inspiration for these efforts did not originate within the intelligence community but with individuals at the highest levels of policymaking in the US governmentNational security advisors Mitrovich asserts were adamant that the Soviet threat must be eliminated so the United States could create a stable prosperous international system Only the shifting balance of power caused by the development of Soviet nuclear weapons forced US leaders to abandon their goal of subverting the Soviet system and accept a world order with two rival superpowers
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This kit includes illustrated paper cutout models celebrating the postwar architecture of Central and Eastern Europe that recreate some of the most controversial edifices built behind the Iron Curtain Includes seven brutalist buildings to assemble spanning from the omnipresent precast housing estates to the mighty postSoviet landmarks awaiting renovation or threatened by demolition
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During much of the Cold War physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act There remained however possibilities for other socialist escapes particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes such as beaches campgrounds nightclubs concerts castles cars and soccer matches The chapters explore the effectiveness of state efforts to engineer society through leisure entertainment and related forms of cultural programming and consumption They lead to a deeper understanding of statesociety relations in the Soviet sphere where the state did not simply dictate from above and inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities identities and meaning
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Coming at a time of enormous transformations in the onetime Communist bloc this volume provides a muchneeded perspective on the significance of churchstate relations in the renaissance of civil society in the region The essays collected here accentuate the peculiarly political character of Protestantism within Communist systems With few identifiable leaders a multiplicity of denominations and a tendency away from hierarchical structures the Protestant churches presents a remarkably diverse pattern of churchstate relations Consequently the longtime coexistence of Protestantism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union affords numerous examples of political accommodation and theological adaption that both reflect and foreshadow the dramatic changes of the 1990sBased on extensive field research including interviews with notable figures in the Protestant churches in the region the essays in this volume address broad topics such as the churchs involvment in environmentalism pacifism and other dissident movements as well as issues particular to Russia Poland Czechoslovakia East Germany 19491989 Hungary Yugoslavia 19451991 Bulgaria and Romania The final volume in the threevolume work Christianity Under Stress Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia will prove invaluable to anyone hoping to understand not only the workings of religion under Communism but the historical and contemporary interactions of church and state in generalContributors Paul Bock Lawrence Klippenstein Paul Mojzes Earl A Pope Joseph Pungur Sabrina Petra Ramet Walter Sawatsky N Gerald Shenk Gerd Stricker Sape A Zylstra
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As director for European affairs at the National Security Council from 1989 to 1992 Robert Hutchings was at the heart of US policymaking toward Europe and the Soviet Union during the dizzyingly fast dissolution of the Soviet bloc American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War presents an insiders report on and analysis of US performance during a crucial turn of world historyHutchings also brings a scholars balanced judgment and historical perspective to his insiders view as he reconstructs how things looked to policymakers in the United States and in Europe describes how and why decisions were made and critically examines those decisions in the light of what can now be known He assesses the critical support of US diplomacy for the East European revolutions and the unification of Germanyoffering fascinating character sketches along the wayand describes how US relations with Moscow were managed up to the collapse of the USSR Hutchings also discusses the difficulties in forging a postcold war European order and US failures in dealing with a disintegrating Yugoslavia
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Coming at a time of enormous transformations in the onetime Communist bloc this volume provides a muchneeded perspective on the significance of churchstate relations in the renaissance of civil society in the region The essays collected here accentuate the peculiarly political character of Protestantism within Communist systems With few identifiable leaders a multiplicity of denominations and a tendency away from hierarchical structures the Protestant churches presents a remarkably diverse pattern of churchstate relations Consequently the longtime coexistence of Protestantism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union affords numerous examples of political accommodation and theological adaption that both reflect and foreshadow the dramatic changes of the 1990sBased on extensive field research including interviews with notable figures in the Protestant churches in the region the essays in this volume address broad topics such as the churchs involvment in environmentalism pacifism and other dissident movements as well as issues particular to Russia Poland Czechoslovakia East Germany 19491989 Hungary Yugoslavia 19451991 Bulgaria and Romania The final volume in the threevolume work Christianity Under Stress Protestantism and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia will prove invaluable to anyone hoping to understand not only the workings of religion under Communism but the historical and contemporary interactions of church and state in generalContributors Paul Bock Lawrence Klippenstein Paul Mojzes Earl A Pope Joseph Pungur Sabrina Petra Ramet Walter Sawatsky N Gerald Shenk Gerd Stricker Sape A Zylstra
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The events of 1989 that brought an end to the socalled East Bloc may have increased womens opportunities to write and publish or at least changed the circumstances under which they do so Still writing from a certain historical and cultural margin these women from East Central Europe have begun to explore a new freedom whose fruits are displayed to exhilarating effect in this booka freedom to experiment to innovate to create a literature uniquely expressive of their world This volume for the first time allows Englishspeaking readers to discover the pleasures of these womens writingA rich compendium of fiction by twentyfive women from eighteen different nations ranging from Lithuania to Ukraine to Poland the Czech Republic Romania Albania and Slovenia The Third Shore brings to light a whole spectrum of womens literary accomplishment and experience virtually unknown in the West Gracefully translated and with an introduction that establishes their political historical and literary context these stories written in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain are tales of the familiarof illness and death love and desire motherhood and war feminism and patriarchyreconceived and turned into something altogether new by the distinctive experience they reflect
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Riot police patrol the borders bodies of drowned children wash up on holiday beaches a humanitarian disaster unfolds in refugee settlements this is the European Union today But how did a bloc that was founded on the values of human rights and dignity for all reach this point And what was driving more than a million desperate people to risk their lives on the Mediterranean in the hope of finding sanctuary Charlotte McDonaldGibson has spent years reporting on every aspect of Europe s refugee crisis and Cast Away offers a vivid glimpse into the personal dilemmas pressures choices and hopes that lie beneath the headlines Here we meet five people forced from their homelands including Nart a Syrian lawyer who becomes an underground activist fighting the Assad regime until the risk of imprisonment and torture becomes too great Sina is newly married and heavily pregnant when she finds herself travelling alone across three continents to escape the Eritrean dictatorship And Hanan watches in horror as the safe world she built for her four children in Damascus collapses and she has to entrust their lives to people smugglersWhile the politicians wrangle over responsibility and the media talk in statistics Cast Away brings to life the human consequences of the most urgent issue of our time
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While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy In postcommunist Eastern Europe the way people remember state socialism is closely intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical justice Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated or not commemorated by major political actors across the region The book is built on three premises The first is that political actors always strive to come to terms with the history of their communities in order to generate a sense of order in their personal and collective lives Second new leaders sometimes find it advantageous to mete out justice on the politicians of abolished regimes and whether and how they do so depends heavily on their interpretation and assessment of the collective past Finally remembering the past particularly collectively is always a political process thus the politics of memory and commemoration needs to be studied as an integral part of the establishment of new collective identities and new principles of political legitimacy Each chapter takes a detailed look at the commemorative ceremony of a different country of the former Soviet Bloc Collectively the book looks at patterns of extrication from state socialism patterns of ethnic and class conflict the strategies of communist successor parties and the cultural traditions of a given country that influence the way official collective memory is constructedTwenty Years After Communism develops a new analytical and explanatory framework that helps readers to understand the utility of historical memory as an important and understudied part of democratization
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Tragedy and Hope shows the years 18951950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century With clarity perspective and cumulative impact Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and worldwide economic depression As an interpretive historian he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context The result is a unique work notable in several ways It gives a picture of the world in terms of influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other it shows more completely than in any similar work the influence of science and technology on human life and it explains with unprecedented clarity how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced todays world
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Tragedy and Hope shows the years 18951950 as a period of transition from the world dominated by Europe in the nineteenth century to the world of three blocs in the twentieth century With clarity perspective and cumulative impact Professor Quigley examines the nature of that transition through two world wars and worldwide economic depression As an interpretive historian he tries to show each event in the full complexity of its historical context The result is a unique work notable in several ways It gives a picture of the world in terms of influence of different cultures and outlooks upon each other it shows more completely than in any similar work the influence of science and technology on human life and it explains with unprecedented clarity how the intricate financial and commercial patterns of the West prior to 1914 influenced todays world
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While the fall of the Berlin Wall is positively commemorated in the West the intervening years have shown that the former Soviet Bloc has a more complicated view of its legacy In postcommunist Eastern Europe the way people remember state socialism is closely intertwined with the manner in which they envision historical justice Twenty Years After Communism is concerned with the explosion of a politics of memory triggered by the fall of state socialism in Eastern Europe and it takes a comparative look at the ways that communism and its demise have been commemorated or not commemorated by major political actors across the region The book is built on three premises The first is that political actors always strive to come to terms with the history of their communities in order to generate a sense of order in their personal and collective lives Second new leaders sometimes find it advantageous to mete out justice on the politicians of abolished regimes and whether and how they do so depends heavily on their interpretation and assessment of the collective past Finally remembering the past particularly collectively is always a political process thus the politics of memory and commemoration needs to be studied as an integral part of the establishment of new collective identities and new principles of political legitimacy Each chapter takes a detailed look at the commemorative ceremony of a different country of the former Soviet Bloc Collectively the book looks at patterns of extrication from state socialism patterns of ethnic and class conflict the strategies of communist successor parties and the cultural traditions of a given country that influence the way official collective memory is constructedTwenty Years After Communism develops a new analytical and explanatory framework that helps readers to understand the utility of historical memory as an important and understudied part of democratization
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Already famous throughout Europe this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual practical accomplishments of Communism around the world terror torture famine mass deportations and massacres Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy yearsRevolutions like trees must be judged by their fruit Ignazio Silone wrote and this is the standard the authors apply to the Communist experiencein the China of the Great Helmsman Kim Il Sungs Korea Vietnam under Uncle Ho and Cuba under Castro Ethiopia under Mengistu Angola under Neto and Afghanistan under Najibullah The authors all distinguished scholars based in Europe document Communist crimes against humanity but also crimes against national and universal culture from Stalins destruction of hundreds of churches in Moscow to Ceausescus leveling of the historic heart of Bucharest to the widescale devastation visited on Chinese culture by Maos Red GuardsAs the death toll mountsas many as 25 million in the former Soviet Union 65 million in China 17 million in Cambodia and on and onthe authors systematically show how and why wherever the millenarian ideology of Communism was established it quickly led to crime terror and repression An extraordinary accounting this book amply documents the unparalleled position and significance of Communism in the hierarchy of violence that is the history of the twentieth century
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