Although significant achievements in the arts are recorded from the first half of the 15th century, scholars generally reckon this period one of the darkest in the history of the area.
She continues: "I think the party needs a moment of reckoning with our period in office.
The book was an anguished reckoning with a period he had avoided as a historian because, as he wrote in his memoir, "given the strong official Party and Soviet views about the 20th century, one could not write about anything later than 1917 without the strong likelihood of being denounced as a political heretic".
But critics say Klobuchar has never publicly reckoned with a period of her career that they recall with bitterness.
Recent data have shown the economy to be perking up notably in the fourth quarter; it may have grown 3.6% in the period, reckons Macroeconomic Advisers, a consultancy.
As millions of people defaulted, the banks confronted enormous losses in a bloody period of reckoning.
At home, the Soviet Government now faces a period of reckoning with the roots and consequences of the war.
Aimed at today's Germans, who would like, perhaps, to come to a final reckoning with the war period, "Generation War" is an appeal for forgiveness.
The anti-trade backlash, building for years, has become explosive because the global economy has arrived at a sobering period of reckoning.
Yes, this is a time for new year's wishes; but more than that, it is a period of reckoning, of reflection on the previous year so that we can make the coming and future years better.
