The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism

Tina Rosenberg / Author Vintage Books USA $17.95 (464p) ISBN 9

MacArthur fellow Rosenberg's National Book Award-winning look at the uneasy transition from communism in eastern Europe. (June)

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