Hoover Digest

Hoover Digest 1997 No. 2
1997 No. 2
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HISTORY AND CULTURE:
The Economic Consequences of the Fall of Two Empires*

By Lewis H. Gann

Western Europe recovered from the Third Reich with astonishing speed. Yet Russia and much of Eastern Europe are now engaged in a long, slow struggle to recover from communism. What accounts for the difference? A final essay by the late Hoover fellow Lewis H. Gann.



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The late Lewis H. Gann was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: he died in January 1997.

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