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9781842433409

What's So Eastern About Eastern Europe? Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

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    9781842433409

  • ISBN10:

    1842433407

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-01-01
  • Publisher: Oldcastle Books

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Summary

Leon Marc gives the reader the big picture of Eastern Europeits political, economic, social and cultural history, the nature of changes there and of the issues at stake in the political and economic transitionwhile putting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU enlargement into a broader perspective of general European history. Three key strands of Eastern EuropeCentral Europe, Eastern Europe proper, and Southeast Europeare identified and the Germanic, Byzantine, and Ottoman influences on the region are examined.What'sSoEastern About Eastern Europe?is written in an accessible, non-academic way, addressing the stereotypes about the region and their roots and explaining why the notion of Eastern Europe is now obsolete and misleading. It gives an Eastern European's perspective, and is informed by the author's own personal experience of the changes that brought the Wall down.

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LEON MARC is a diplomat and writer, with a deep interest in history and currently the Slovenian Ambassador to the Netherlands

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