A Coming of Age: Albania Under Enver HoxhaEast European Monographs, 1999 - 266 pages In 1945, Albania was an extremely under-developed nation compared to other countries in Europe. So in studying Enver Hoxha's forty-year reign (1945-85) it is necessary to recognize him as a leader who accomplished great things for Albania while concurrently enmeshing the country in policies that were not only counterproductive but self-destructive. This book studies a wide range of areas pertaining to Hoxha's impact upon Albania's development. O'Donnell shows that, while it is necessary to give Hoxha a mixed report card, he nonetheless enabled a small nation with a multitude of limitations to maintain its sovereignty and modernize through unorthodox methods. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Communists Come to Power in Albania | 7 |
Albania and Yugoslavia | 17 |
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