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Travels in a Europe Restored: 1989-1995

Travels in a Europe Restored: 1989-1995

Elstob, Eric C.

Hardcover

Series: 77

General World HistoryInternational RelationsRussian History

ISBN10: 0851155200
ISBN13: 9780851155203
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: Oct 23 1997
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.03
Height: 1.08 Width: 5.64 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
The collapse of Communism in eastern Europe viewed through personal experience.

Europe Restored is a highly personal account of the fall of the Iron Curtain, written from an unusual viewpoint. Eric Elstob was director of various investment trusts in the City during the years before and after the collapse of Communism, with a special interest in European affairs. But he also travelled as an ordinary tourist in eastern Europe, and this book juxtaposes vividly the vignettes of everyday life that he encountered with his high-levelcontacts in the financial and political world; a discussion of the problems of switching from a command economy to a market economy with the finance minister in the capital one month is set beside a talk with the baker who had just bought his shop in a village the next month. Such daily encounters offer exceptional grass-roots witness to the economic challenges facing the former eastern European countries as they struggle to rejoin the wider European economic and cultural entity.

ERIC ELSTOB was vice-chairman of the Foreign and Colonial Group until his retirement in 1995.

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