Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land

Eastern Europe is disappearing. Not off the map of course, but as an idea.

Today it calls to mind a jumble of post-Soviet states paved over with C&A and McDonald's. We could describe Eastern Europe as…

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