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Written by one of the world's foremost authorities on East Central Europe, Return to Diversity has proven to be an invaluable guide for readers of modern European history and politics. This third edition introduces a new co-author, Nancy M. Wingfield, and has been fully updated to take into account recent and ongoing developments in the region.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Preface to the Second Edition(p. x)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xi)
• 1. The Interwar Background(p. 1)
• 2. World War II(p. 23)
• 3. The Communists Come to Power(p. 75)
• 4. The Dialectics of Stalinism and Titoism(p. 125)
• 5. The Revenge of the Repressed: East Central Europe Reasserts Itself(p. 147)
• 6. A Precarious Stalemate(p. 191)
• 7. The Various Endgames(p. 227)
• 8. The Postcommunist Decade(p. 265)
• Notes(p. 303)
• Suggested Readings(p. 317)
• Index(p. 325)

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CHOICE Review

At a time when the socialist countries of Eastern Europe confront a complex set of circumstances inducing different patterns of political and economic change, Rothschild's political history of East Central Europe reminds readers that the monolithic character of the region was, if anything, just an interlude, followed by the reemergence of political diversity and renewed manifestations of nationalism. This survey of East European history covers the last six decades, starting with the interwar years and continuing with WW II and the establishment of Communist power in the region. Special attention is given to events that presented the most visible challenges to Soviet rule in Eastern Europe: the turbulent year of 1956, the "Prague Spring," Yugoslavia's and Albania's reassertions of independence from the Soviet Union, and the political developments of the 1980s in Poland. Rothschild's approach is organized around a general politico-historical analysis of the region as a whole, supplemented by effective treatments of events in specific countries. One misses the inclusion of the German Democratic Republic, but the author's arguments for the omission are understandable. Rothschild views this book as a continuation of his earlier East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (CH, May '75), and it has the potential to become--as was its predecessor--standard reading for professors and students alike. Well written, factual without getting lost in details, this book is recommended for all levels. -H. A. Welsh, University of South Carolina

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Joseph Rothschild is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and an Associate of the Institute on East Central Europe at Columbia University. A member of the Editorial Board of Political Science Quarterly, he has written several other books on East Central Europe, including The Communist Party of Bulgaria (1959), Pilsudski's Coup d'Etat (1966), East Central Europe Between the Two World Wars (1974), and Ethnopolitics: A Conceptual Framework (1981).
Nancy M. Wingfield is Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University. She is the editor of Nationalities Papers and the author of Minority Politics in a Multinational State: The German Social Democrats in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1938 (1989).