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Enver Hoxha - The Iron Fist of Albania (Paperback)
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Enver Hoxha - The Iron Fist of Albania (Paperback)
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Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of communism, came to an
end in most of Eastern Europe with the death of Josef Stalin in
1953 or at least with the Khrushchev reforms that began in the
Soviet Union in 1956. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism
survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the
Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from the time of the communist
takeover in 1944 until his death in 1985, and that continued
unabated under his successor Ramiz Alia until 1990, was
incomparably severe. Such was the reign of terror that no audible
voice of opposition or dissent ever arose in the Balkan state, a
European country that became as isolated from the rest of the world
as North Korea is today. When the Albanian communist system finally
imploded, it left behind a weary population, frightened and
confused after decades of purges and political terror. It also left
behind a country with a weak and fragile economy, a country where
extreme poverty was the norm. In the decades since Hoxha's death,
Albania has made substantial progress in political and economic
terms, yet the spectre of Hoxha still lingers over the country.
Despite this, many people - inside and outside Albania - know
little about the man who ruled the country with an iron fist for so
many decades. This book provides the first biography of Enver Hoxha
available in English, from his birth in GjirokastEr in southern
Albania, then still under Ottoman rule, to his death in 1985 at the
age of 76. Using archival documents and first-hand interviews,
Albanian journalist Blendi Fevziu pieces together the life of this
tyrannical ruler, in a biography which will be essential reading
for anyone interested in Balkan history and communist studies.
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