A History of Modern Europe - From the Renaissance to the Present

1206 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism Communist backlash, particularly in the countryside, where Hoxha had been ...

The Fall of Communism 1207 In Russia, the charismatic, hard-drinking, impulsive Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007) had risen to positions ...

1208 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism president of the “Russian Federation,” another sign of how quickly the Sov ...

The Fall of Communism 1209 bachev, too, acknowledged that the Soviet Union no longer existed. Sym­ bolically, Leningrad again as ...

1210 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism during the Balkan Wars (1912-1913). In the meantime, ethnic Albanians clai ...

The Fall of Communism 1211 Map 29.2 The Disintegration of Yugoslavia, 1995 The fall of the Commu­ nists in Yugoslavia led to the ...

1212 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism (Left) A Kosovo Albanian refugee released from the custody of the Yugoslav ...

The Fall of Communism 1213 ation and a Serb republic. This agreement would be supervised by a NATO peacekeeping force, including ...

1214 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism nuclear disasters. Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal and its claim to the remnants ...

The Fall of Communism 1215 tures, traditions of political parties, civic cultures, or adequately developed voluntary association ...

1216 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism of state-owned property engendered problems. In Hungary, foreign con­ glom ...

The Fall of Communism 1217 governments established language tests to determine who was a “real” Estonian. The newly independent ...

1218 Ch. 29 • Democracy and the Collapse of Communism states, as well as Russian apprehension that Georgia, as well as Ukraine, ...

CHAPTER 30 GLOBAL CHALLENGES: “FORTRESS EUROPE,” EUROPEAN COOPERATION, AND THE UNCERTAINTIES OF A NEW AGE 1 he remarkable increa ...

1220 Ch. 30 • Global Challenges rise in the price of oil had immediate worldwide consequences. Then the subprime lending crisis, ...

Immigration to Europe 1221 larly from the poorer countries of southern and eastern Europe, has also continued to be significant. ...

1222 Ch. 30 • Global Challenges region, followed closely by Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians, and an increasing number of Wes ...

Immigration to Europe 1223 Table 30.1. Foreign-Born Population and Percentage of Total Population, 1995 Country Foreign-Born Pop ...

1224 Ch. 30 • Global Challenges West Indians) rocked several northern industrial cities and London. As in the inter-war years, e ...

Immigration to Europe 1225 A prayer demonstration by Muslims to protest opposition to the construction of a mosque in Nice, Fran ...