Decades of Crisis: Central and Eastern Europe Before World War II

by Iván T. Berend

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229010
• ISBN13: 9780520229013
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 485 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"