β Scribed by Roger East; Jolyon Pontin
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This comprehensive reference, an expanded edition of Revolutions in Eastern Europe, provides a general introduction and broad historical background of Eastern and Central European countries from the First World War onwards, focusing on the development of independent countries and the establishment of Soviet-backed dictatorships, as well as their subsequent experience of political pluralism and external relations and alignments in post 1989 Europe. Each country is covered in an individual chapter, giving a factual account of their revolutions and upheavals and an assessment of their underlying causes.
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Contents
Introduction
Overall chronology
1. Historical background
2. Poland
3. Hungary
4. Czechoslovakia
Czech Republic
Slovakia
5. East Germany
6. Romania
7. Bulgaria
8. Albania
9. Yugoslavia
Croatia
Bosnia-Hercegovina
Slovenia
Macedonia
10. The Baltic States
11. The changing shape of European organizations
Bibliographical note
Glossary of terms and acronyms
Index of personal names
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