Reading and Writing for Critical Thinking Project

Compiled by
Matthew A. Kollasch
July 1997

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• Beyond Borders: Remaking Cultural Identities in the New East and Central Europe. Edited by Laszlo Kurti and Juliet Langman. Westview Press, 1997.

• Brown, J. F. Hopes and Shadows: Eastern Europe after Communism. Duke University: Press, 1994.

• Dahrendorf, Ralf. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Times Books, 1990.

• Fonseca, Isabel. Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and their Journey. Knopf, 1995.

• Fullerton, John. Monkey House. Crown, 1996.

• Johnson, Lonnie R. Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors, and Friends. Oxford University Press, 1996.

• Kaplan, Robert D. Balkan Ghosts: A Journey through History. Vintage, 1993.

• Kaplan, Robert D. Ends of the Earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy. Vintage, 1997.

• Kapuscinski, Ryszard. Imperium. Vintage, 1994.

  Polish journalist examines disintegration of Soviet Union.

• Kazakstan: Transition of the State (World Bank Country Study) World Bank, 1997.

• Maclean, Fitzroy. Eastern Approaches. Penguin, 1991.

  Maclean recounts his adventures in Soviet Central Asia, the Western Dessert and Yugoslavia. He was with Tito's partisans during the last days of German occupation in Yugoslavia. First published in 1949, the 1991 reprint is now out-of-print. Try your library or ask your bookseller to locate a copy.

• Naughton, James. Traveller's Literary Companion: Eastern & Central Europe. Passport Books, 1995.

• Olcott, Martha Brill. The Kazakhs (Studies of Nationalities). Hoover Institute Press, 1995.

• Quigley, Kevin F.F. For Democracy's Sake: Foundations and Democracy Assistance in Central Europe. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1977.

  Includes a chapter titled: "George Soros: Leader of the Band" plus examination of educational work in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland, and Hungary.

• Rosenberg, Tina. The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts after Communism. Random House, 1995.

  This National Book Award winner provides a lucid and extensive account of political life in Czech and Slovak Republics, Poland and East Germany before and after the events of 1989.

• Simon, Ted. The Gypsy in Me. Random House, 1997.

• Skeggs, Douglas. The Phoenix of the Prague. St Martins, 1997.

  When paintings-presumed lost-show up at auction in Prague, Jan Capek returns to his native city at the request of his British employers to uncover the story behind the once missing canvases. Formerly in the private collection of dictator Ceausescu, the paintings undoubtedly have an intriguing history, and Capek must weave his way through a maze of criminals before he can find the source of the paintings and get out of the Czech Republic alive.

• Walters, Garrison E. The Other Europe: Eastern Europe to 1945. Syracuse University Press, 1988.