The Establishment Of Communist Regimes In Eastern Europe, 1944-1949
ISBN: 9780813335346
出版社: Lightning Source Inc
出版年: 1998-5
页数: 328
定价: 380.00元
装帧: Pap
内容简介
This collaborative effort of scholars from Russia and the United States reevaluates the history of postwar Eastern Europe from 1944 to 1949, incorporating information gleaned from newly opened archives in Eastern Europe. For nearly five decades, the countries of Yugoslavia, Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet zone of Germany were forced to live behind the "iron curtain." Though their experiences under communism differed in sometimes fundamental ways and lasted no longer than a single generation, these nations were characterized by systematic assaults on individual rights and social institutions that profoundly shaped the character of Eastern Europe today. The emergence of the former People's Democracies from behind the iron curtain has been a wrenching process, but the beginning of the communist era was equally as traumatic as its end.