Decades of crisis
Subtitle: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II
By: Ivan T. Berend.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
Subjects: Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.; Europe, Central -- History.
Description: Only by understanding Central and Eastern Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century can we hope to make sense of the conflicts and crises that have followed World War II and, after that, the collapse of Soviet-controlled state socialism. Ivan Berend looks closely at the fateful decades preceding World War II and at twelve countries whose absence from the roster of major players was enough in itself, he says, to precipitate much of the turmoil. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-422) and index.