It is a book which exemplifies and expresses the deep agonies, the desperate yearning of the Soviet orbit's disillusioned intelligentsia for intellectual freedom, for personal dignity, for true social and economic progress; for a way out of the morass of false theories, bureaucratic ties and cruel exploitation. One of the great political documents of our time-perhaps the most important in its f…
Assembled here at this Conference, we are conscious, that we are taking upon ourselves a great responsability before the peace-loving world, which rightly hopes that we shall do every thing in our power here in order to remove the danger which is hovering over mankind. The peoples of all the world are expecting to hear an unanimous and resolute call against all that hampers the peaceful creativ…
Yugoslavia was well positioned at the end of the cold war to make a successful transition to a market economy and westernization. Yet two years later, the country had ceased to exist, and devastating local wars were being waged to create new states. Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the start of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina in March 1992, the country moved toward disinte…