Return to Diversity A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II

by Rothschild, Joseph; Wingfield, Nancy M.

• ISBN13: 9780195119930
• ISBN10: 0195119932
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe,Return to Diversity, 3/E has proven to be an invaluable guide to students ofmodern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a newco-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into accountrecent and ongoing developments in the region. The suggested readings lists hasalso been extensively revised to reflect the most current scholarship in thefield.

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	ix
Preface to the Second Edition	x
Preface to the First Edition	xi
The Interwar Background	1	(22)
World War II	23	(52)
The Communists Come to Power	75	(50)
The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism	125	(22)
The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself	147	(44)
A Precarious Stalemate	191	(36)
The Various Endgames	227	(38)
The Postcommunist Decade	265	(38)
Notes	303	(14)
Suggested Readings	317	(8)
Index	325