Review by Choice Review
Focused on Eastern Europe, this is an excellent model of a new type of book best suited to portraying the multiethnic and multicultural areas of nations. In such studies it is often impossible for one author to be sufficiently informed to paint the necessary multidimensional cultural and political reality of the present, and yet weight it with historical roots. Jenne (Central European Univ., Hungary) shows not only a familiarity with the most recent literature in the field, but her writing reflects that at every step she has sought counsel not merely from established senior scholars, but also from a battery of young scholars like herself, each passionately concerned with some specific development comparable or parallel to the focus of her study. The reader benefits from the collective wisdom, experience, and conclusions of a whole generation of young scholars, studying a far larger gamut of problems than the traditional research study could ever encompass in such breadth and depth. The author must be congratulated on producing a study at once thoughtful and practical. This book should not be read casually: it has to be studied to extract all it has to offer as contemporary history in the making. Summing Up: Highly recommended. General readers; upper-division undergraduates through faculty. L. K. D. Kristof emeritus, Portland State University
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Review by Choice Review
