What's What (And Who's Who) in Europe

This provides a survey of key people, places, organizations, movements, acts and agreements providing the key to understanding major changes throughout Europe. Over 4500 entries include explanations of technical terms, concepts and new words (eg finlandization, derogation, sysmin, open skies, nomenklatura). It also explains the relative uses in different countries of labels and symbols: wet/dry (UK), black/red (Germany), bourgeois (= non-socialist parties in Scandinavia). Each country is profiled in detail: geography, population, economy, external trade, political structure, administration, armed forces, international alliances and history. The book is cross-referenced, has a key to Europ-abbreviations and has supplementary information eg tables showing comparative GNP's, population etc.