Archive for January, 2014

Jan 29 2014

Post-Communist Legacy of Poverty

This article from The Atlantic reminded me of the GDP statistics listed among our primary sources. It seems notable that the Czech Republic, Poland, Croatia, Slovenia, and Macedonia have different results from the rest of the areas in the area of our concern. Also, East Germany is now part of the “rich” Germany, however East […]

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Jan 28 2014

Overview & Primary Sources

Two sets of personal accounts found among the exercises in the World History Sources page at the Center for History and New Media focus on American reactions to German invasion of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. A letter from Mark Kistler, a vacationer traveling in Central Europe treats the invasion of Prague as once incident, though an important one, […]

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Jan 27 2014

Welcome

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Welcome to my research blog hosted at onMason for HIST 300: 1989 in Eastern Europe. This blog will follow the course of this research methods class, and hopefully generate some insight into the collapse of communist regimes that inspired much of the world a quarter century ago.

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