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  • Illiberal Europe

    Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine

    by Leon Marc ...
    Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • What's So Eastern About Eastern Europe?

    Twenty Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall

    by Leon Marc ...
    Leon Marc gives the reader the big picture of Eastern Europe—its political, economic, social and cultural history, the nature of changes there and of the issues at stake in the political and economic transition—while putting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU enlargement into a broader perspective of general European history. Three key strands of Eastern Europe—Central Europe, Eastern Europe ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Illiberal Europe

    Eastern Europe from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the War in Ukraine

    by Leon Marc ...
    Narrated by Mark Elstob ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 18 min

    Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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