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Subtitle: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 4, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780195119930
First sentence: At the close of World War I, the four defeated empires that had dominated and ruled East Central Europe-the German, Habsburg, Ottoman, and Russian empires-were replaced by a dozen new or restored or enlarged would-be nation-states, all of which based their asserted legitimation on the then reigning politico-moral principle of national self-determination.