Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First Edition
1. The Interwar Background
2. World War II
3. The Communists Come to Power
4. The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism
5. The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself
6. A Precarious Stalemate
7. The Various Endgames
8. The Return to Europe
Notes
Suggested Readings
Index

A szerzőkről:
Joseph Rothschild, Professor of Political Science and Associate of the Institute on East Central Europe, Columbia University.

Nancy W. Wingfield, Associate Professor of History, Northern Illinois University.