Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Release : 2013-06-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland by : Britannica Educational Publishing
Download or read book Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland written by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After emerging from the long shadow cast by the Soviet Union, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and neighboring Poland transitioned from communism to market economies and instituted democratic reforms in a remarkably short time. Although each continues to contend with various economic and political issues, their successes have allowed them to become some of the few former Eastern bloc states to join the European Union. The journeys each country has madefrom antiquity to the presentand the remarkable peoples and cultures that make their populations are the subjects of this captivating volume.