A review by tyranny
A History of Eastern Europe by Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius
2.0
The main issue with this book, is that the author races through most of early Eastern European history, than lags massively talking about the cold war. Which yes that's a pivotal event in the history of the region, however the author recounting of the events reads more a ideological refutation of communism/ ideological support of free markets.
Going so far as to assert U.S sitting president Ronald Reagan knew the wall was coming down and had a hand in it happening.
Yet the author doesn't cover the damage or issues which occured during the switch to another economic system for the region, without anything but a hand wave. Then the rest of the book is a race to now, without much detail besides those weird cold war era jokes here and there.
I could go on, but overall I think there are better, less ideologically biased history books to read on the topic. So id give this a pass.
Going so far as to assert U.S sitting president Ronald Reagan knew the wall was coming down and had a hand in it happening.
Yet the author doesn't cover the damage or issues which occured during the switch to another economic system for the region, without anything but a hand wave. Then the rest of the book is a race to now, without much detail besides those weird cold war era jokes here and there.
I could go on, but overall I think there are better, less ideologically biased history books to read on the topic. So id give this a pass.