Warszawapakten, Östblocket

The collapse of the state-controlled economies of the former Eastern Bloc will certainly change the way the global economy operates. Bringing together scholars from a wide variety …

From the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy across the developing and post-Communist worlds transformed the global political …

It is not possible to understand the nature and functioning of post-communist political parties without understanding their relationship with the state. On the one hand, few …

The early 1980s brought dramatic changes in East-West relations. The decade began with the death of Yugoslavia's Tito, the birth of Poland's Solidarity trade union, and the U.S. …

A rigorous and comprehensive account of recent democratic transitions around the worldFrom the 1980s through the first decade of the twenty-first century, the spread of democracy …

The Warsaw Pact is generally regarded as a mere instrument of Soviet power. In the 1960s the alliance nevertheless evolved into a multilateral alliance, in which the non-Soviet …

This book highlights multiple perspectives related to the Cold War presented by scholars from almost all continents. They discuss a variety of consequences of the Cold War for …

The 1960s have reemerged in scholarly and popular culture as a protean moment of cultural revolution and social transformation. In this volume socialist societies in the Second …

A teenage girl's difficult journey towards adulthood in a time of war."e;A school story for grownups that is also about our inability or refusal to protect children from …

Det begynder i 1969. Seks unge mennesker kommer til Uppsala. Omstændighederne fører dem samme, og de udvikler en slags venskab. Men under en bustur til Østeuropa sker der noget, …