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Eastern Europe in the Postwar World
This book is a history of Eastern Europe from the terrible disasters of World War II to today's more hopeful, but still anxious, era.
- GenresNonfictionHistory
299 pages, Hardcover
First published June 15, 1991
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June 12, 2012
Might be useful as a supplementary text to a college history course on the subject. Deals with many issues cursorily, but does a nice job of following a continuous thread. In order to grasp the entire concepts and events discussed in the book, other texts and information are required. Tito, Lech Walesa, Adam Michnik and others are refered to with the assumption that the reader already knows the significance of these people.
June 17, 2022
I started this book without any expectations. My education, while varied, failed in some aspects, and I do try to rectify that. So, as anyone would do, I went to my university library and asked where their Soviet history section was. There were loads of books on Stalin and Lenin, but frankly I'm not interested in them. This one caught my eye though.
The title may seem vague, the chapters might look scary, but I beg that you give it a chance! It is not that terribly complicated. The author holds you hand through just enough that you don't get lost, but doesn't treat you like you're incapable of learning by yourself. In fact, while this is a great book, the thing I liked the most were the footnotes. They are very detailed, precise and useful.
The title may seem vague, the chapters might look scary, but I beg that you give it a chance! It is not that terribly complicated. The author holds you hand through just enough that you don't get lost, but doesn't treat you like you're incapable of learning by yourself. In fact, while this is a great book, the thing I liked the most were the footnotes. They are very detailed, precise and useful.
January 16, 2016
Simons provides an fairly thorough history of Europe in the postwar world. His personal experience as a diplomat who worked at various stations in Eastern Europe during the postwar era adds an additional layer of knowledge to the book. Though a bit meandering at times and occasionally hard to follow, Eastern Europe in the Postwar World provides an interesting look at the journey Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union made from communism to the process of building new democratic states in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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