Politics in Eastern europeche

The communist experience in Central and Eastern Europe has been one of the most extraordinary political experiments of the twentieth century Its long term effects over will continue to be felt within its countries for many years to come as they struggle to return to democracy In this book George Schopflin provides an exceptional analysis of what communism sought to do how it was first able to sustain itself in power against considerable popular opposition and why it collapsed after four decades in exhaustion Politics in Eastern Europepp.256 284 English