Quest for Freedom: The Transformation of Eastern Europe in the 1990s |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 32
Page 78
... never be produced or ever reach the market . The candor and freedoms of glasnost would neither lead to arrest nor put bread , potatoes , sausages , on the table . And the only seeming way out was to attempt to build a pro- ductive and ...
... never be produced or ever reach the market . The candor and freedoms of glasnost would neither lead to arrest nor put bread , potatoes , sausages , on the table . And the only seeming way out was to attempt to build a pro- ductive and ...
Page 206
... never see another damn cent from our bank . That's just how it is . -Director of Eastern European operations for one of Germany's biggest banks , February 1992 As we know from history , the sequence has always been dif- ferent ...
... never see another damn cent from our bank . That's just how it is . -Director of Eastern European operations for one of Germany's biggest banks , February 1992 As we know from history , the sequence has always been dif- ferent ...
Page 232
... never made a ' Jewish film . ' He meant it as a compli- ment . " 3 Hungary stood thus : falling living standards ; polarization of wealth and poverty ; downward mobility for one - fifth or more of the population ; foreign investors in ...
... never made a ' Jewish film . ' He meant it as a compli- ment . " 3 Hungary stood thus : falling living standards ; polarization of wealth and poverty ; downward mobility for one - fifth or more of the population ; foreign investors in ...
Contents
Tsar and Soviet | 17 |
The Success and Failure of the Soviet Economy | 65 |
HISTORY WITHOUT END | 107 |
Copyright | |
16 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
arms army authority bank budget building bureaucratic called capital central Commonwealth Communist communities create currency December defense demands democracy democratic direct domestic early East East German Eastern Europe economic elections emerged enterprises established ethnic European face factories fear February followed forces foreign former freedom future German Gorbachev held imports independent industrial interests internal investments January keep Kremlin labor land leaders leading living March materials means ment military million Moscow moved National Salvation Front nations nuclear officials opposition organized output Parliament party percent Poland political popular population President Press production promised reforms regions remained republics rubles rule Russian social sought Soviet Union standards supply tion trade turn United University wages wanted West Western workers World Yeltsin York