Revolution and Change in Central and Eastern Europe Revised Edition [Hardcover]

This comprehensive reference, an expanded edition ofRevolutions 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.

Introduction
Overall Chronology
1. Historical Background
2. Poland
3. Hungary
4. Czechoslovakia: Czech Republic and Slovakia
5. East Germany
6. Romania
7. Bulgaria
8. Albania
9. Yugoslavia: Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slovenia and Macedonia
10. The Baltic States
11. The Changing Shape of European Organizations
Bibliographical Note
Glossary
Index

Roger Eastis Managing Director of the Cambridge International Reference on Current Affairs (CIRCA), Cambridge, UK.

Jolyon Pontinis former Regional Editor for Central and Eastern Europe for CIRCA, Cambridge, UK.