The Economic History of Eastern Europe 1919-1975: Volume I: Economic Structure and Performance between the Two Wars (Economic History of Eastern Europe 1919-1975, Vol 1)
Cantànima (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
An interesting and insightful article at Forbes' website. Most of it agrees with discussions I've had with my wife. I wish it were longer, and the fact that he says nothing about the war in Kosovo nor the financial collapse in Russia is disappointing, but it's a good start nevertheless.
SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
We would like to draw your attention to the 1991 SPGB pamphlet (.pdf document) available on our website which covers the events of Eastern Europe in 1989.
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
1913 Intel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The source of much of this nervousness is a familiar Cold War adversary: Russia, which, the letter’s authors claim, “is back as a revisionist power” and is throwing its weight around. Coupled with a more belligerent Russia, the former political leaders warn that a new generation of political leaders is emerging whose members didn’t experience [...]
Put An End To War (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... what he had foretold appears to be manifesting in the exact country in which he said it would. Eastern European papers reporting on outbreak: UPDATE Nov 4: The WHO continues to recommend no closure of the country's borders and no restrictions on international travel, including to Ukraine. "Experience shows that such measures will not stop the further spread of the virus," reads...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Telerik, a leading provider of development tools and solutions for the Microsoft .NET platform, today announced it has been awarded fifth place in the 2009 edition of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 listing of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in Central and Eastern Europe. The prestigious award reflects Telerik’s rising leadership role in...
The Economist (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The ex-communist economies have not collapsed. But finding new ways to catch up with the West will be hard EVEN at the height of the ex-communist countries’ boom in 2006, almost half their citizens felt they lived worse than in 1989. Yet that glum verdict on 17 years of liberalisation, privatisation and stabilisation was tempered by another finding. Most of those polled by the World Bank and...
Euractive (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
US President Barack Obama sees Eastern Europe as a "Bush administration project" and is not conscious of the need to counter growing Russian influence there, Edward Lucas, who has been The Economist's correspondent for Eastern Europe for over 20 years, told EurActiv Slovakia in an interview.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
As Russia pressures Eastern Europe, the U.S. looks away
Sofia News Agency (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
From EurActiv.com by Michal Hudek ...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Poll reveals generation gap on democracy, capitalism in ex-communist European countries
Business Week (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
A new report by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development warns that European financial integration has brought dangers as well as benefits for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), while separate data suggest France is increasingly powering the EU's economic recovery.
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the ghost of Communism past.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... knows who he is.” Electing communists isn’t the whole story, obviously. In 20 years Eastern Europe’s drab citadels of depression have turned into bright and vibrant cities. But in the bright, vibrant, post-communist streets, ex-communists routinely duke it out with neo-Nazis — for Nazis are making a comeback as well. Eastern Europe hasn’t laid its ghosts...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
“You expect flamboyant wastefulness and outrageously shitty taste from Russian oligarchs,” wrote David Roth in this very space in March of 2008, “but Shabtai von Kalmanovic isn’t about show horses or dipping random things around his house in platinum or competitive jet-sailing or whatever it is that tacky ultra-billionaires do. He is more of [...]
