Eastern Europe 1939-2000

Pittaway, Mark 1971-2010 (Author).

Summary: The approach used in this volume is both thematic and explicitly comparative. The author explores the social legacy of World War Two, the Stalinist experience, the post-Stalinist regimes, challenges to the dictatorships in 1956, 1968 and 1980 to 1981, the revolutions of 1989 and the post-socialism experience.

Record details

ISBN: 0340762209
ISBN: 9780340762202
ISBN: 0340762195
ISBN: 9780340762196
Physical Description: print
x, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: London : Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-278) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Crisis, war and occupation -- Building socialism -- Consolidating socialism -- A society based on productive labour -- Remaking the private sphere -- The socialist public sphere and its limits -- Socialism in decay -- The collapse -- After socialism.