A Decade that Made History

A Decade that Made History
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Publisher : Council of Europe
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9287139288
ISBN-13 : 9789287139283
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Book Synopsis A Decade that Made History by : Denis Huber

Download or read book A Decade that Made History written by Denis Huber and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the fall of the Berlin Wall to Kosovo, covering the unification of Germany, the break-up of the USSR & Yugoslavia, as well as the "velvet divorce" of Czechoslovakia, these last ten years have seen great upheavals in our continent, on a scale probably unparalleled since the fall of the Roman empire. The Council of Europe has played a special role in all of this, as the structure best qualified to welcome the new European democracies, & its membership has soared from 23 to 41 (including 17 central & east European countries) between 1990 & 1999. Truly "a decade which made history" -- & one which the reader is invited to retrace in these pages.


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