Eric Foner Quotes

American ideas about freedom certainly resonate abroad. Eastern Europeans embraced them after the collapse of Communist rule. Indeed, the years since 1989 have witnessed an unprecedented internationalization of current American concepts of freedom.

Eric Foner

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• Rule
• Communist
• Collapse
• American Ideas

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  • Freedom
  • Rule
  • Communist