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Describes how the communist system crumbled in Eastern Europe ; recreates what communism meant for Eastern Europeans and the reasons for its rapid disappearance.

From spectacular international landmarks such as the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Eiffel Tower, and Stonehenge to scenes of industrial pollution, global warming, and acid rain damage, this program offers images spanning a wide range of topics. Other clips include the Swiss Alps and Scottish lochs, pink flamingos in Kenya and rhinos in Zimbabwe, the Amazonian rainforest, a wind farm in Wales, a traffic jam in Thailand, tourists in Hong Kong...

"From the break-up of the wartime 'grand alliance' in 1945 David Rees shows how successive East-West crises have their roots in the Communist leaders' belief that their Marxist-Leninist view of history represents the inevitable wave of the future. This belief when imposed on the traditional rivalries of international relations in a period of revolutionary racial violence results in unpredictable consequences. The study also shows how the nuclear-missile...

Gives a complete history of global change from 1945 to the present.

" In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy...

Includes material on Konrad Adenauer, Douglas MacArthur in Japan, Dean Acheson, Jean Monnet, Marshall Plan, John Foster Dulles, John F. Kennedy, Charles de Gaulle, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Willy Brandt, detente, Henry Kissinger, trilateralism, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan.