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This book is in very good condition. The cover boards have some wear on the front, back, edges and spine. There is little bumping, but some fraying on the cover boards. The pages are crisp, white and clear of any markings. The cover boards have an affixed stamp and signature of the previous owner on the front inside cover board. "Three times during the twentieth century - in 1918, 1945, and 1981 - Eastern Europe was to be made 'safe for democracy.' The dismantling of the empires of the Habsburgs, Ottoman sultans, Russian tsars, Hitler's Germany, and that of the Soviet Union in the face of the irresistible force of the oppressed nation's quest for democracy has fulfilled the axiomatic ideological position of Western champions of the principle of self-determination of nationalities. Yet even after the overthrow of the most pernicious forms of totalitarianism democracy remains illusory. It may well be asked what factors mitigated against the triumph of democracy after the world wars and to what extent…
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Columbia History of Eastern Europe In The Twentieth Century
by Joseph Held
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- ISBN 13
- 9780231076968
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