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The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism written by Tina Rosenberg and published by Random House in 1995, [1] won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction [2] and the 1995 National Book Award for Nonfiction. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg, Tina (1995). The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism. Random House. ISBN   0-679-42215-3.
  2. ↑ "Pulitzer Prize Winners: General Non-Fiction". pulitzer.org. Archived from the original (web) on 2007-11-04. Retrieved 2008-03-10.
  3. ↑ "National Book Awards – 1995". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-20. (With acceptance speech.)


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