Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States 1997 3rd edition

This volume is one of the highly‐respected series of surveys of regions of the world published by Europa. It follows a similar pattern to the others, being split into a number of sections giving regional background, individual country and political information. The volumes are bulky, heavy, and expensive ‐ a typical reference book some might say! But it contains a huge amount of potentially very useful information arranged in a user‐friendly way.

This volume is the third edition and surveys 27 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. This area is the old communist bloc of...