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This history of Holland, from its earliest beginnings to the present day, provides the most up-to-date survey of modern Dutch history, including the current Dutch approach to a number of social issues, such as the welfare state, the environment, socialized medicine, and the role of the military in the post-Cold War world.

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This book studies the made-to-order genre of socialist-realist fiction that was produced at the direction of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy (MPD) as a part of the war for men's minds waged by the Soviet State. Topics examined in the book include the attitude toward Germans following World War II;

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The Netherlands has a high level of personal freedom, but the open ideas that originated in the 1960s have spilled into the public sphere, resulting in anxious conformity. This text asks why political correctness has become so strongly ingrained and why the results have not always been positive.