OLDCASTLE
WHAT’S
SO EASTERN
ABOUT
EASTERN
EUROPE?
LEON MARC
X
Ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern
Five years on from the major Eastern
Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed
expansion of the EU
up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe
X Twenty years on from the fall of the
apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations
and the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European,
Berlin Wall
although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.
X Essential reading for the enquiring Leon Marc gives the reader the big picture of Eastern
traveller to Eastern Europe
Europe – its political, economic, social and cultural
history, the nature of changes there and of the issues
X A compact overview of European at stake in the political and economic transition – while
political history
putting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU enlargement
into a broader perspective of general European history.
Leon Marc is a diplomat
and writer, currently the
What’s So Eastern About Eastern Europe? addresses
Slovenian Ambassador to the
the stereotypes about the region and their roots and
Netherlands. He studied Public
explains why the notion of Eastern Europe is now
Policy and Management in the
obsolete and misleading, giving an Eastern European’s
UK and was involved in the perspective, and informed by the author’s own personal
student movement in his native experience of the changes that brought the Wall down.
country at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
www.oldcastlebooks.com/east/
AVAILABLE NOVEMBER 2009
‘Royal’ Format (234 X 156mm) paperback
170pp
World Rights
ISBN: 978-1-84243-340-9 £12.99
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