Return to Diversity

Highly acclaimed and thoroughly updated, Return to Diversity, Fourth Edition, provides a comprehensive political history of East Central Europe from World War II to the present. An engaging and straightforward political narrative, the book is organized chronologically in a country-by-country format that readers can easily navigate. Each section summarizes and examines the most important themes in Eastern Europe during the rise and fall of Communism. The
fourth edition incorporates more social and economic history and also provides expanded coverage of the resurgence of nationalism in the 1980s, the role of dissident movements in the shift to democracy, and the problems of Communism.