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• Introduction
• Executive summary
• Final Seminar report
• Profiles of seminar participants
• Seminar program and questions
• In memoriam: Miljenko Deeta.

• The emigrants and the ancestral home
• Vojo in the village
• All in the extended family
• Illustrations
• Shepherd boy
• Our town
• Young Yugoslavs
• Return to America.

• Day 1 : Framing the issues : Welcoming addresses / A. Denis Clift, Michael D. Maples, Sergiu T. Medar
• Keynote address: U.S. European Command Initiatives to promote regional cooperations / Charles F. Wald
• Overview of the Black Sea/Caspian Sea region / Jeffrey Simon
• U.S. policy and interests in the region / Richard D. Kauzlarich
• Dept. of Defense interests and initiatives in the region / James C. MacDougall
• Security situation in the Black Sea / Mehmet Eroz
• Day 2 : Strategies for cooperation : Current intelligence briefing: security threats to the region / Joint Intelligence Analysis Office, DIA
• Theater perspective in security threats and Allied cooperation / John M. Custer, Brian A. Keller, Robert M. Clark
• Energy development and the future of the region / Kate Hardin
• Regional security issues and concepts for cooperation : Counter-narcotics / DIA ; Terrorism /JITF-CT ; Illegal trafficking / Anna Stinchcomb ; Methods of cooperation / Jennifer Moroney
• Issue discussed and the way ahead / Richard Giragosian
• Closing remarks / A. Denis Clift, Michael D. Maples.

A comprehensive survey of the region. Presents recent economic and political developments and includes authoritative analysis, statistics, directory material and biographical details of leading political figures.
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This volume offers extensive coverage of current political, economic and social affairs of the region. It provides an impartial perspective on all the countries and territores of Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia. With easy-to-use data, it contains almost 600 pages of analysis by acknowledged experts, recent statistics and useful directory material.
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In 1989, to the surprise of many, the infamous Iron Curtain separating Western and Eastern Europe collapsed. In a matter of months, a world that had existed for four decades was overturned, and nations and people who had for centuries been dominated - and at times destroyed - by their more powerful neighbours to the east and west were detatched from the Russian sphere of influence and set on radically new economic and political path. Eastern Europe has re-emerged on the world scene in ways unimaginable during the Cold War, from the unexpected expansion of NATO into former Warsaw Pact nations to the painful attempts to build democracy and market economies in areas that, until the late 1980s, saw political totalitarianism and planned economies. More recently, the outburst of violence associated with the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia has been a reminder that Eastern Europe is still a volatile and unpredictable region of the world, one still capable of being driven by powerful emotions rooted in the distant past. This encyclopedia explores the history of this complex region over the last two centuries. The cornerstone of the encyclopedia are the articles on countries and regions of Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and the countries that once made up Yugoslavia. Additional coverage of European Russia is also included. These articles are both detailed and concise, offering the reader a brief but comprehensive introduction into a country's history during the last two centuries-a crucial time when Europe was swept by wars and convulsive political change that shaped the present. Eastern European history is often written from an "outsider" perspective-that is, from the vantage point of the impact of the West or of Russia on this crossroads of Europe. Although the influence of its neighbors is a formative and defining aspect of Eastern European history, it is not the only one. This encyclopedia offers a variety of rich detail covering the intrinsic cultural, political, and social phenomena of the region. The book also covers not only the leading figures who shaped the region's political destiny, but also the major artists, writers, and other culturally significant individuals during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Some of these figures are known in the West, while others will be new to the average reader. A unique community of more than 200 scholars of Eastern Europe from the United States, Canada, and Europe - each an expert in his or her field - has been assembled to create more than 1,000 entries. An extensive map program enriches the text and helps the reader place a topic in geographic context. Bibliographies at the end of entries direct the reader to accessible sources for further reading or research on Eastern European history.
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• 1. 1928-1934.

• Acknowledgements - Introduction - Rethinking the East European Revolutions - The Collapse of Communism - From Information Control to Creative Chaos - A Hotbed of Hatred - Coping with Ethnic Conflicts in Eastern Europe - In the Company of Bulgarians - East Germany as a 'Model Case' for Transformation Theory - Managing an Unmasterable Past - Transformation, Modernity and the East German 'Sonderweg' - Bibliography - Index.
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This book presents a novel understanding of the break-up of communist hegemony in East Germany and Eastern Europe. Based on comparative case-studies, it argues that identity politics is a particular invention of communist rule, producing apolitical citizens. Focusing upon identity politics helps us to understand better the long-term stability of communist hegemony, its sudden collapse, the difficulties of transforming communist societies into liberal democracies and the unexpected revival of ethnic, nationalist and cultural conflicts in post-communist Eastern Europe.
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