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Modern Albania - From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe (Hardcover)
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Modern Albania - From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe (Hardcover)
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In the early 1990s, Albania, arguably Europe's most closed and
repressive state, began a startling transition out of forty years
of self-imposed Communist isolation. Albanians who were not allowed
to practice religion, travel abroad, wear jeans, or read "decadent"
Western literature began to devour the outside world. They opened
cafes, companies, and newspapers. Previously banned rock music
blared in the streets. Modern Albania offers a vivid history of the
Albanian Communist regime's fall and the trials and tribulations
that led the country to become the state it is today. The book
provides an in-depth look at the Communists' last Politburo
meetings and the first student revolts, the fall of the Stalinist
regime, the outflows of refugees, the crash of the massive
pyramid-loan schemes, the war in neighboring Kosovo, and Albania's
relationship with the United States. Fred Abrahams weaves together
personal experience from more than twenty years of work in Albania,
interviews with key Albanians and foreigners who played a role in
the country's politics since 1990-including former Politburo
members, opposition leaders, intelligence agents, diplomats, and
founders of the Kosovo Liberation Army-and a close examination of
hundreds of previously secret government records from Albania and
the United States. A rich, narratively-driven account, Modern
Albania gives readers a front-row seat to the dramatic events of
the last battle of Cold War Europe.
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