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Author Quinn, Frederick

Title Democracy at dawn : notes from Poland and points East / Frederick Quinn
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station, Tex. : Texas A & M University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 250 pages) : illustrations
Series Eastern European studies ; no. 5
Eastern European studies (College Station, Tex.) ; no. 5.
Contents List of illustrations -- Series editor's statement -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Warsaw, Moscow, Moldova -- 2. Warsaw, Berlin, London -- 3. Warsaw, London, Tiraspol, Venice -- 4. Kazakhstan, Georgia, Warsaw -- 5. Romania, Armenia -- 6. Belarus, Central Asia -- 7. Albania, Ukraine, Tajikistan -- 8. Prague, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan -- 9. Latvia, Estonia, Moscow -- 10. Chechen Republic, Moscow, Vienna -- 11. Latvia, Estonia -- 12. Georgia, Moscow, Tajikistan -- A concluding essay: Constitutions and courts -- Index
Summary From 1993 to 1995, the author, "traveled the former Soviet empire as head of the rule of law programs of the Warsaw Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR), part of the Organization fro Sceurity and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). His primary task was to help the new nations of the region write new constitutions and modernize their judicial systems."
Notes Includes index
English
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Subject Post-communism -- Europe, Eastern
Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Manners and customs
Post-communism
Social conditions
Sociology & Social History.
Social Sciences.
Social Conditions.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642
Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs
Former Soviet republics -- Social conditions
Former Soviet republics -- Social life and customs
Subject Eastern Europe
Soviet Union -- Former Soviet republics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97029954
ISBN 0585191751
9780585191751