Decades of Crisis
Subtitle: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: March 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9780520229013
Subjects: Economic history; European history: from c 1900 -; Marxism & Communism; Social history; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; History; History - General History; History: World; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Eastern Europe - General; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History / General; General
First sentence: In a paradoxical way, the modernization crisis of Central and Eastern Europe was a consequence of the moderate but significant economic and social progress achieved in the second half of the nineteenth century by following the West.