The Post-Communist Baltic States get a good press in the Western media. Their politicians are often quoted on issues ranging from Brexit to Putin. Their capital cities are post-Communisms Potemkin villages. But what has been the fate of ordinary people in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania since their Singing Revolutions in 1991? Regular visitors to the Baltic States since 1993, the authors expose the perverse realities of three small nations promoted as post-Communist models. Propaganda about the benefits of EU and NATO membership cannot mask that the Baltic States are in the grip of corrupt...
The Post-Communist Baltic States get a good press in the Western media. Their politicians are often quoted on issues ranging from Brexit to Putin. The...
Although it is hailed by the West as a model of reform, Georgia's twenty years of independence have been marked by political instability, poverty and war. The authors of this book have visited the country regularly since 1991 and have been persistently critical of its unhappy trajectory from Soviet communism to the market economy. Georgia's turbulent recent history seems to foreshadow the 'Arab Spring' - but as a warning, not as an object of imitation.
Although it is hailed by the West as a model of reform, Georgia's twenty years of independence have been marked by political instability, poverty and ...
