Return to Diversity A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II
by Rothschild, JosephEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-10-21
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.
Author Biography
Joseph Rothschild is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and an Associate of the Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University. A member of the Editorial Board of Political Science Quarterly, he has written several other books on East Central Europe, including The Communist Party of Bulgaria (1959), Pilsudski's Coup d'Etat (1966), East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (1974), and Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework (1981). Nancy M. Wingfield is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the editor of Nationalities Papers and the author of Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (1989).
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. x |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xi |
| The Interwar Background | p. 1 |
| World War II | p. 23 |
| The Communists Come to Power | p. 75 |
| The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism | p. 125 |
| The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself | p. 147 |
| A Precarious Stalemate | p. 191 |
| The Various Endgames | p. 227 |
| The Postcommunist Decade | p. 265 |
| Notes | p. 303 |
| Suggested Readings | p. 317 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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