Belarus - The Last European Dictatorship
Author(s): Andrew Wilson
A revelatory history of Europe's last dictatorship, a Soviet satellite of key contemporary strategic significance, currently with an eccentric autocrat at the helm
In 2020 Belarus made headlines around the world when protests erupted in the aftermath of a fraught presidential election. Andrew Wilson explores both Belarus's complicated road to nationhood and its politics and economics since it gained independence in 1991. Two new chapters reveal the extent of Aliaksandr Lukashenka's grip on power, the growth of the opposition movement and the violent crackdown that followed the vote. Wilson also examines the prospects for Europe as a whole of either Lukashenka's downfall or his survival with Russian support.
"Andrew Wilson has done all students of European politics a great service by making the history of Belarus comprehensible and by showing how the future of Belarus might be different than its present."--Timothy Snyder, author of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
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- : John Wiley Sons Australia Ltd
- : John Wiley Sons Australia Ltd
- : 09 March 2021
- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrew Wilson
- : Paperback