Books by B. Fowkes

History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The distinction is made here between East Central Europe, where the author's conclusions are largely optimistic, and the Balkans, where uncertainty still prevails.

Ethnic and national conflicts have been an unexpected and major source of problems in many parts of the world in recent times. This book provides a readable introduction to, and brief analytical coverage of, all the ethnic disputes of the 1990s. Full justice is done both to complex present-day situations and the deeper roots of ethnic conflict.

History did not come to an end with the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. The distinction is made here between East Central Europe, where the author's conclusions are largely optimistic, and the Balkans, where uncertainty still prevails.

This book tells the dramatic story of the unexpected disintegration of the Soviet Union. He concludes that, the efforts of Mikhail Gorbachev to reform the state he initially controlled, undermined and eventually destroyed the mechanisms that held the non-Russians in check.