After Communism

Jacques Lesourne, editor of "Le Monde," and a distinguished colleague provide a history of the epochal changes in Europe and the USSR since Gorbachev took power, and consider the scenarios that could develop over the next 20 years. Part I charts therist of Gorbachev, the events of 1989, the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War. Part II is a bold attempt at geo-political and economic forecasting: what will become of the economies of Eastern Europe, what are the prospects of an enlarged EC, and what of the former USSR? In a time of bewildering change "After Communism" is the attempt by two leading experts to unravel the skein of chance and necessity that is Europe's recent history and to illuminate its possible futures.