Eastern Europe 1939-2000

Mark Pittaway is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UK

• The other Europe; building socialism, 1945-1953; consolidating socialism, 1953-1970; society based on socialist labour; autonomy and privatization - escape from the nationalised public sphere; nation, community and opposition; the decay of socialism, 1970-1995; new order has yet to be born - post-socialist Eastern Europe.

'Pittaway's writing style is direct and supple, and his arguments are well presented. This is a great addition to the scholarship on communist Eastern Europe, and it will be useful to instructors of undergraduate classes as well as researchers. Highly recommended.' Choice