Post-Communism

Four Perspectives

Book by Michael Mandelbaum, Editor

January 01, 1996

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How have the twenty-seven countries that emerged from communist rule between 1989 and 1992 fared since then? Postcommunism: Four Perspectives offers distinctive analyses by four leading scholars of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the last decade of the twentieth century.

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