History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy

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The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: The Struggle for Control of the South Asian Military Economy
Randolf G. S. Cooper
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The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns of 1803 represented the last serious indigenous obstacle to the formation of the British Raj. This study examines Maratha military culture through a battle-by-battle analysis of the campaigns. Randolf Cooper challenges the ethnocentric assumptions that associate Western political ascendancy with "The Military Revolution" and argues that the real contest for India was the struggle to control the South Asian military economy, rather than a single decisive military battle. Victory depended more on economics and intelligence than on superiority in discipline, drill and technology.

China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience

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China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience
R. Bin Wong
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"This bold, intellectually ambitious, and wholly original book challenges the way in which Western social science understands China. . . . It will set the standard for all future comparative and theoretical research on China."--Timothy Brook, Stanford University

"This is a most extraordinary book. Wong's approach is to explore carefully similarities and differences between Chinese and European development over the long term, highlighting themes related to state-making and popular action. This is by far the most sophisticated, extended discussion of imperial and modern China in comparative perspective that I have seen."--Peter C. Perdue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The assumption still made in much social science research that Europe provides a universal model of development is fundamentally mistaken, according to R. Bin Wong. The solution is not, however, simply to reject Eurocentric norms but to build complementary perspectives, such as a Sinocentric one, to evaluate current understandings of European developments. A genuinely comparative perspective, he argues, will free China from wrong expectations and will allow those working on European problems to recognize the distinct character of Western development.

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Masterly.......2007-04-05

I really enjoyed this book; it's theme of needing to look at Europe from a Chinese perspective in order to gain symmetry needs greater currency. But it's for the expert, not the amateur.

Understanding China.......2005-11-07

This book, as the author says in some ways a series of essays, attempts to elucidate the patterns of Chinese imperial history and to correct the tendency to mis-understand China through applying inappropriately generalised European conceptions to it. These two goals it achieves well.

The book fails to grapple with the demographic costs of some of the events covered -- most notably Maoist rule, but also the Taiping rebellions and the Manchu invasion. This is both a moral and an analytical failing, since such experiences explain much of the power of appeals to order regularly used by Chinese rulers.

Bin Wong also overstates the role of culture as an explanation. Thus, I was struck by the number of parallels with the Roman imperium that Bin Wong's explanation of the development of Chinese imperial rule suggested. You could make a good case that, if the history of the Mediterannean basin had been a series of iterations of the Roman Empire of the Antonines, then one would have ended up with a state much like the late Imperial Chinese state.

Looking at the similar C19th experiences, but very different trajectories, of China and Japan, largely ignored by Bin Wong, also points to the power of institutional factors. Bin Wong does show that the Qing regime made greater efforts to deal with the Western challenge but it had to both industrialise *and* build appropriate institutional structures to mobilise social resources in new ways. Japan already had the institutions, to which it added a Western gloss, so it could concentrate on industrialising.

But it is a sign of the strength of the book that one can fruitfully consider such matters. I found it a very approachable way of becoming much better informed on Chinese history.

Interesting but Uneven.......2000-06-23

This interesting book is an attempt to look at Chinese history in an unbiased manner. Professor Wong notes correctly that interpretations of many scholars are distorted by judging Chinese history by its deviations from what is presumed to be the normative, or desired, course of development. The normative standards, of course, are derived from European history. Wong makes the very good point that using European history in this way is damaging not only to the study of Chinese history but also imposes distortions on the study of European history. Wong is concerned particularly with examining Chinese economic development and state formation. This book covers a very wide sweep of Chinese history, roughly from the Ming to contemporary China. The book is divided into 3 components; one comparing China and Europe in the pre-industrial period of the 17th and 18th centuries, one looking at the response of the Chinese state and society to the great challenges of the 19th century, and one looking at the response of the Chinese state and society to social unrest. The first third of the book is the best. The analysis of pre-industrial China is really interesting and Wong makes a set of very interesting points. He demonstrates well that the economic differences between China and pre-industrial Europe have been exaggerated. He then examines the unique character of the Chinese state. Again, the comparison with European political development is illuminating. This section achieves Wong's goal of treating Chinese history as an autonomous phenomenon but maintaining a useful comparative perspective. The second part of the book is quite good and the discussion of the problems faced by the 19th century Chinese state and its responses is interesting. Again, there are interesting comparisons with European states. The final section is the least interesting. It adds little to carrying forward Wong's basic project of establishing the autonomy of studying Chinese history. Indeed, I see little that departs from prior conventional interpretations. This section in particular suffers also from Wong's attempt to cover such a broad range of Chinese history and at times has a superficial quality. Wong is generally a clear writer but sometimes slips into what might be called post-modernist academic jargon. For example, the narrative (used to mean analysis) appears often, as does discourse (ditto), and privilege appears as a verb. This is not a major defect but is irritating.

Interesting But Uneven.......2000-06-17

This is a very ambitious attempt to free the study of Chinese history from somewhat inappropriate perspectives. Wong correctly criticizes many prior views of China as baised by viewing European history as normative and then studyng China as a deviation from European norms. He argues this is a particular problem in studies of economic development and state formation. He attempts to avoid this trap by comparing Chinese and European history in an unbiased by not relativistic format that he hopes will cast light on the distinctive features of both European and Chinese history. Ths book consists of 3 major parts; Economic history and Development, State Formation, and a section on Protest and Social Change. The scope of the book is very ambitious, spanning the Ming period up to Communist and contemporary China. The first parts of the book, dealing with economic development and the features of the Imperial state, are the most interesting. Here Wong is able to demonstrate both the interesting similarities in pre-industrial development and the considerable differences in state structure/formation. This is a nice, balanced overview with considerable analytic power. Later portions of the book are not as strong. Having made his essential points, a good part of the second half of the book is repetitive. The sections dealing with the problems of the 19th century Chinese state are quite good but the third part of the book, dealing with social protest is relatively thin and adds little to the essential argument. Wong would have been better off restricting the scope of the book and deepening the analysis. One thing that impressed me about the second half of Wong's book is that his interpretation doesn't seem truly different from conventional analyses with the difference being largely a matter of terminology. A minor defect is that while Wong is a clear writer there are times when he slips into post-modernist (or whatever you want to call it) academic jargon. The words narrative (used to describe analysis), discourses (ditto), and privilege (as a verb) are sprinkled throught the text. Sloppy.

Stabilizing and Integrating the Balkans: Economic Analysis of the Stability Pact, EU Reforms and International Organizations (American and European Economic and Political Studies)

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A Network Approach to Deal with Global Conflicts

Stabilizing and Integrating the Balkans: Economic Analysis of the Stability Pact, EU Reforms and International Organizations (American and European Economic and Political Studies)
Paul J.J. Welfens
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There is a complex challenge of economic recovery and reconstruction given long-term economic deterioration and war-related destruction in the Balkans. The Balkan Stability Pact stands for a networked approach of international organizations to deal with these problems. The analysis critically looks into strategies, actors, and preliminary results. There are shortcomings and inconsistencies and there is some potential for transatlantic conflicts over the issue of burden sharing. There is also a risk of EU imperial overstretch facing eastern and south-eastern EU enlargement.

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A Network Approach to Deal with Global Conflicts.......2001-10-23

"Stabilizing and Integrating the Balkans" is an extremely insightful and timely analysis of how-in a globalized world-national governments and international organizations can form a network to deal with regional conflicts. As the foundation for his analysis, Paul Welfens describes the conditions in the Balkans at the end of the Kosovo War and analyzes how the international community has tried to create the conditions for sustained economic growth and political stability in the region. In addition to providing relevant and detailed economic, political, and institutional information, Paul Welfens looks critically at the key actors of the Stability Pact. The book shows that the approached used in the Balkans could become a model for future cooperation among national governments and international organizations to deal with similar political and economic challenges in other parts of the world. Paul Welfens, however, also identifies inconsistencies that should be overcome. Areas of particular concern are the future transatlantic relationship between Europe and the U.S. as well as the enlargement of the European Union.

While the book focuses on the Balkans in the aftermath of the Kosovo crisis, the reader cannot avoid asking the question of how the experiences from the Balkans could also be used to overcome political instability and poor economic conditions in other conflict regions of the world. For example, in the aftermath of the events in the U.S. on September 11, the international community is confronted with a volatile situation in Afghanistan and the surrounding countries such as Pakistan and India. In many respect, a network approach similar to that in the Balkans will be required to stabilize the conditions in that part of the world as well.

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disappointing.......2004-05-31

This book is often thought-provoking, but ultimately too shallow. Too many of its conclusions are just stated without enough justification. Although not quite as quick to read, Stiglitz' "Globalization and its discontents" goes much deeper and has a more balanced point of view.

Timely thoughts from a real economist.......2000-03-28

Free thinking economists such as Mr Chossudovsky are few and far between. Please take the time to read about the reality of what we have been lured into.

Very Good thoughts on the eve of the Millennium.......1999-10-27

These are some wonderful thougts that have stimulated my mind into asking the question "CanAfricansThink?".This book exposes the disguise of mainstream economics which leaves human society's precious values at the hands of economic lust.All Africans need to know about this big con job being operated under the disguise of macro economics.

A devastating critique of neoliberalism.......1999-05-02

Looking at case studies from around the developing world, backed up with a strong theoretical analysis of the IMF and World Bank's role in the international economy, the globalisation of poverty brings the reader to one stark conclusion: 'Poverty is an input on the supply side, (of the global economy.)' Particularly interesting is Chossudovsky's explanation of the economic 'miracle' of Vietnam, while his analysis of the Yugoslav disaster, co-sponsored by the IMF and international financial investors, is very timely indeed. As Chossudovsky explains, the IMF and World Bank reforms have not merely suppressed populist and socialist economic measures and achievements; they have also prevented the development of national capitalisms, by creating economies directed towards the needs of the capitalist core states, rather than to the national market. For those harbouring any illusions about the economic order which governs humanity at the end of this century, this book is a necessary read. It's a pity that Chossudovsky works at the University of Ottawa and not the LSE, an institution that definitely needs realistic economists like him.

The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia

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The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and Geopolitics in the History of Europe and Asia
Eric Jones
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Why did modern states and economies develop first in the peripheral and late-coming culture of Europe? This historical puzzle looms behind every study of industrialization and economic development. In his analytical and comparative work Eric Jones sees the economic condition forming where natural environments and political systems meet: Europe's economic rise is explained as a favored interaction between them, contrasting with the frustrating pattern of their interplay in the Ottoman empire, India and China. A new preface and afterword have been added for the third edition. Previous Edition Hb (1987): 0-521-33449-7 Previous Edition Pb (1987): 0-521-33670-8

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Explaining the past illuminates the present.......2003-10-27

The European Miracle is a book I have been meaning to read for years. Having finally done so, I found it a pleasure to read, a work which explains much of the past in ways which illuminate the present.

If you are looking for abstract theorising, this is not the book. If you are looking for a book of excellent scholarship, judicious judgement and clear prose which considers the breadth of causal factors, this is definitely your book.

Jared Diamond in his splendid Guns, Germs, Steel asked the questions 'why civilisation?' and 'why Eurasia?'. This asks a later question, 'why Europe?'

I did find the way Jones notes the striking institutional similarities between Japan and Europe but then moves on a bit disappointing. But the great thing about this book is you can fill in the blanks for yourself.

Jones' key analytical point -- that marginal differences, if they persist over centuries, can have huge long term consequences -- is very powerful and conveyed powerfully.

I particularly appreciated the striking delineation of how different the state as it evolved in Europe, and the European experience of the state, was from that of Asia. Once you see that, much subsequent history makes a great deal of sense.

His discussion of the European state system is illuminating, and encompasses (but is not specifically concerned with) local differences. One can see much more powerfully some of the effects of globalisation Friedman pointed to in the Lexus and the Olive Tree.

There is a great deal more in this book. Read it, to understand the past that makes the present much more explicable.

Only if you HAVE to read it...........2001-10-19

This book was extremely informative for anyone that might enjoy the economic history of Europe. For those that are reading it because you HAVE to; expect for the reading to go slow and to have to re-read certain areas. Jones could have said the same things with words half as long with half as many pages! In all fairness to the author, I read this only because it was mandatory for a college economics class; not because it is a topic I typically enjoy.

Interesting but not great.......2000-11-23

A sort of precursor to the brilliant book Guns Germs and Steel by Diamond. This book is by an Australian academic E.L.Jones. It seeks to explain why Europe a backward area of the world in the 1300's came to be the strongest by the 19th Century.

The weakness of the book is that it tends to generalize and talk about Europe as a whole. The author makes the interesting point that Asian and Islamic Civilizations although militarily powerful were not economically advanced. The wealth of individual peasants was low and the concentration of wealth in the autocratic rulers of such places was made possible because of a wide base of oppressed peasants. Europe although starting out from a poorer base had in general terms more affluent peasants and its countries were better able to take advantage of economic growth when the technologies came along.

In trying to explain why this was so the author looks at a wide range of factors. It would take a long time to list them but there is a lengthy examination of a wide range of factors including the absence of parasites because of the colder climate in Europe and the greater political freedom.

The problem is that Europe was not really a uniform entity. Different bits of Europe advanced and became wealthy for different reasons. England and the Netherlands developed extensive trade empires that made both countries very wealthy before the technological developments of the industrial revolution. Russia although backward was a country that expanded and from the time of Peter the Great increased its dominion by conquering a land based empire.

Contemporaries had no doubt for the success of these countries. They believed that the acquisition of territorial empires provided a basis of wealth for the home country. For this reason countries as diverse as Germany, Japan and the United States started to acquire empires by the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The reason for the success of the various European countries varied. Russia built up an autocratic state aimed at being able to field a large army. This was done by Peter the Great who changed the entire social system of land ownership to create obligations for military service. In England the acquisition of a maritime empire led to a strong fleet and a strong merchant class.

It is thus hard to put down the success of Europe to any common causes. Each European Country was dynamic and each developed different systems the more successful of which generated wealth and power. The less successful such as Poland were absorbed by the more successful.

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This collection of essays represents a departure from the traditional perspective, recently questioned by many scholars, from which Ottoman history is usually written. Central to the establishment of Western domination over the ‘East’ is the writing of its history in terms of Western hegemony, above all in the case of the Ottoman Empire, which has been characterised as static, irrational and authoritarian in contrast with the dynamic, rational, democratic West. This book contrasts sharply with conventional studies of the Ottoman Empire, based on this European world-view, that focus on political military, and cultural institutions. Following a series of general theoretical discussions about Ottoman social structure, the contributors turn to case studies directed either to theoretical problems or to ‘facts’ which suggest new avenues of conceptualisation.

Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions

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Mikhail Filippov , Peter C. Ordeshook , and Olga Shvetsova
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The design of federal states from Russia and the Ukraine to Canada and the European Union typically develops from a false set of assumptions regarding the institutional building blocks of such a state. Rather than any carefully delineated allocation of policy jurisdictions, the authors argue that a number of institutional variables, not normally associated with federal design, can be critical in determining federal success. (The variables are the content of regional charters and the extent to which public offices are filled by election rather than appointment.)

Russia's Carnival: The Smells, Sights, and Sounds of Transition

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Russia's Carnival: The Smells, Sights, and Sounds of Transition
Christoph Neidhart
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Neidhart convincingly argues that Russia is a different country from the Soviet Union, growing into a Western-style, middle-class society with a free market and a democratic polity. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Fascinating scenes of a giant country in transitional time.......2003-04-14

As if among the happenings in reality behind the stage, which audience don't usually get to see, the book is full of interesting facts revealing a mysterious society, bringing us there to feel and experience, to be part of it... eventually to reach a more complete understanding we have been looking for.
A very good book for people who are interested in that part of the world, and that kind of world, or, some different kind of world.

Constructing Capitalism: The Reemergence of Civil Society and Liberal Economy in the Post-Communist World

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