Looks comparatively at the countries of Central Europe on both sides of the Iron Curtain; Brings together historians of different generations and countries who are engaged in pioneering research in their respective fields and provides a survey of the kind of work now being undertaken by scholars in the newly available archives; Explores the interaction between high politics and social realities in the countries of postwar Central Europe; Writes the peoples of Central Europe back into their own history
Author Biography
Eleonore Breuning is Emerita Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Wales Swansea. Jill Lewis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Wales Swansea. Gareth Pritchard is the Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand -- .