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Deals with the period of takeover and of 'high Stalinism' in Eastern Europe (1945–1955). These years are considered to be fundamentally characterized by institutional and ideological transfers based upon the premise of radical transformism and of cultural revolution. Both a balance-sheet and a politico-historical synthesis that reflects the archival and thematic novelties which came about in the field of communism studies after 1989.
"In Eurasia's New Frontiers, Thomas W. Simons, Jr., a veteran U.S. diplomat/scholar with extensive experience in the Communist and post-Communist worlds, assays the main post-1991 developments in the fifteen successor states to the USSR drat compose Eurasia. He makes a compelling case that the United States can play a large role in shaping the future of this vast and strategic region at less cost than during Soviet times. This can be achieved, however, only if U.S. policy focuses on Eurasia's fledgling individual Nation-states."--BOOK JACKET.
Vols. 29-30 include papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54 includes papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
A former U.S. ambassador and author of The End of the Cold War? takes readers on a tour of Islamic history, reconstructing the complex historical and geopolitical trends that have created modern Islam. Simultaneous. (Islam)