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The premier source for a comprehensive update and overview of
developments in the most rapidly changing region in the world.
Each edition features thematic coverage of regional, political,
and economic developments.
Chapters on every country of the region cover essential
historical background as well as current developments and domestic
and foreign policy issues.
Supplementing the chapters are maps, data boxes, documents, and
sidebars.
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
This is the story of the critical role played by Radio Free Europe
during the Cold War, as recounted by veteran RFE official J. F.
Brown, who served as director from 1978 to 1983. Jim Brown had
written about Eastern Europe from RFE, but never about RFE until he
wrote this book. He conveys his understanding of how Radio Free
Europe functioned as a decentralized organization that empowered
exiles, while also conveying what it, and they, could and could not
offer East European listeners. Jim Brown's explanations of the
function of the central news department as an internal news agency,
of discussions with and trust of exile broadcast chiefs, of RFE's
cautious approach to broadcasting to Poland under martial law after
1981 to cite only three examples from the book illuminate the
editorial policies and internal relationships that made RFE a
success. His portraits of key personalities over the years help us
understand that RFE was not just an institution; it was a unique
multinational group of people. (From the "Foreword" by A. Ross
Johnson). "The historical analysis Brown brings is extremely
valuable and adds the insight of a first rate analyst to such
topics as the contrast between how RFE handled the Hungarian and
Polish events of the 1950s, the 'Czech spring' in 1968, the Gomulka
period in Poland, the developing independence of Ceausescu's
Romania, etc. All are given perceptive treatment." Eugene R. Parta,
author with A. Ross Johnson of Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the
Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. A Collection of Studies and
Documents. "I know of no other books on RFE by an insider who had
so much experience with the Radios and how they were operated. It
is] very well written, well organized, and a fascinating read."
-Yale Richmond, cultural affairs officer, U.S. Foreign Service
(ret.), author of Practicing Public Diplomacy: A Cold War Odyssey.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
After the exuberance that marked the revolutions of 1989, the
countries of Eastern Europe have faced the breathtakingly ambitious
task of remaking their societies. Simultaneously they have sought
to build liberal democracies based on market economics, while
confronting reassertions of claims for national independence long
suppressed. Taking up where his previous book Surge to Freedom
ended, J. F. Brown's Hopes and Shadows analyzes the results of the
first four years of Eastern Europe's separation from communist rule
and the prospects for the future.
The forces at work in the midst of this revolution are examined
from a perspective that is necessarily both historical and
contemporary as the complex relationship between the tasks that
face these countries and the legacy of their communist and
pre-communist past shape the difficult present. As the usefulness
of the designation Eastern Europe is itself questioned, Brown
provides both regional and country-by-country analysis of the
political situation. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and
Poland are grouped together, as are Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania,
to address questions such as the development of liberal democratic
culture, the activation of democratic institutions and procedures,
and the future of former communist bureaucracies. He considers the
former Yugoslavia--now torn violently apart--largely as a separate
case. The theoretical, political, social, financial, cultural, and
psychological dimensions of the transition from socialism to a
market economy are discussed in detail. The final aspect of this
revolution, the failure of which most immediately threatens the
entire process, is the attempt to build new and stable national
statehoods. Brown explores the history and impact of the current
reemergence of nationalism and the dangers it represents.
A comprehensive and authoritative survey, J. F. Brown's analysis
and presentation of the contemporary Eastern European political
landscape will be essential reading for scholars and specialists
and of great interest to general readers.
"The Grooves of Change" is the culmination of J. F. Brown's
esteemed career as an analyst of Eastern Europe. He traces events
in this diverse and disruption-riddled region from the communist
era to the years of transition after the fall of the Berlin Wall to
the present. Brown also provides specific analyses of the
development of liberal democratic culture in the former communist
countries of Eastern Europe--Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic,
Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the successor states of
Yugoslavia.
While acknowledging that the term "Eastern Europe" began to fall
into disuse with the end of the cold war, Brown uses it as a
framework for discussing the enduring features of the modern
history of this region: its basic continuity, the prominence of
ethnic and national factors, and its dependence on great powers or
combinations of powers outside it. He explains the significance of
the growing gulf between East Central Europe and South Eastern
Europe, the overall political and economic deprivation and its
effect on the people, the urgency of change, and the complex
dynamics within Eastern Europe that have defied definitions and
generalization. Finally, Brown points to the need for continuing
assistance by the United States and the West and suggests what the
twenty-first century may bring to this constantly changing part of
the world.
Those seeking a clear overview of events in Eastern Europe during
the recent psat and the state of these nations now will benefit
from this incisive study by J. F. Brown.
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