Mark Almond

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Mark Almond is a writer and lecturer of Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford and former fellow at the US connected Atlanticist think tank the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies.

Almond holds a Masters degree (M.A.), and is the chair of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group (which despite its name is not affiliated with the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights). He has served as an election observer under the aegis of the BHHRG in a number of countries including Georgia and Ukraine.[1] He has been critical of what he characterizes as Western interference with democracy, such as the activities of George Soros. His research interests lie in 19th Century and 20th Century Central-Eastern Europe; he has written a biography of Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu and a study of the Bosnian War in its historical context.

Publications

  • Revolution: 500 Years of Struggle for Change 1996 (London) , ISBN 1-899883-73-8
  • Decline without fall: Romania under Ceausescu 1988 (London) Alliance Publishers, for the Institute for European Defence & Strategic Studies, ISBN 0-907967-96-5
  • Europe's backyard war: the war in the Balkans 1994 (London) Heinemann, ISBN 0-434-00003-5
  • National pacifism: Germany's new temptation 1991 (London) Alliance Publishers. ISBN 0-907967-26-4


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