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The Economist Book of the Week on 29th May 2010 was A Tale of Two Villages by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi. "A dramatic, thought-provoking and sometimes savagely funny account of one of the
toughest problems in Europe: the ingrained poverty of the Romanian countryside."
CEU Press launched Masterpieces of History - The Peaceful End of the Cold War in Europe, 1989, the sixth book in the Cold War Reader Series, on May 31 at the Open Society Archives. The volume, based on the ground-breaking research and documentation of the National Security Archive in Washington DC, contains crucial historical documents and is absolutely indispensable for understanding the end of the Cold War.
Prague Tales leads top ten of CEU Press sales after 2000. 2. Memoir of Hungary, 3. The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, 4. A Cardboard Castle, 5. Jewish Budapest, 6. A Biographical Dictionary, 7. Stalin – an Unknown Portrait , 8. Uprising in East Germany, 9. A Life under Russian Serfdom, 10. Russian Foreign Policy in Transition
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Freedom for Publishing, Publishing for Freedom
The Central and East European Publishing Project
Edited by Timothy Garton Ash
A remarkable initiative that punched holes through
the cultural Iron Curtain by encouraging translations
and a "common market of the mind" between East and West.
1995
206 pages
ISBN 978-1-85866-055-4 paperback $21.95 / £ 13.95
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