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The museum which once displayed Enver Hoxha’s pyjamas now houses a pro-democracy radio station

Albania has come a long way in three decades — transformed from a Stalinist dictatorship into a functioning democracy —but it has been at considerable cost, says Will Nicoll

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

30 May 2015

9:00 AM

Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe Fred C. Abrahams

New York University Press, pp.358, £35, ISBN: 9780814705117

Albania is a small country of 2.7 million people, wedged within the Balkan peninsula. Separated from both Greece and Italy by mere kilometres of seascape and shoreline, it borders the European Union, and, with official candidate status as a member country, strongly hopes for closer ties.

As Fred C. Abrahams describes it, the country’s transition from cultish Stalinist dictatorship to functioning democracy in only three decades should be a source of debate, intrigue and pride.

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