Название: The Price of Freedom: A History of East Central Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present
Автор: Piotr S. Wandycz
Издательство: Routledge
ISBN: 0415254914
Год: 2001
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 356
Для сайта: mirlib.ru
Размер: 3,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Price of Freedom surveys and explains the fascinating and intricate history of East Central Europe - the present day countries of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Taking a thematic approach, the author explores such issues and controversies as the tension between the industrial developed West and the agrarian East Central Europe, the rise of modern nationalism, democracy and authoritarianism and Communism.
While the countries of East Central Europe have differed dramatically from one another, the author asserts that they have been bound by a certain community of fate. These comparisons are traced through the Middle Ages and the Early Modern era to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This exploration reveals that it is no accident that the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland were the first among the former Soviet bloc nations to be admitted to NATO, and are likely to become the first members of the expanded European Union.







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