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Book SynopsisMark Pittaway is Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UK
Trade Review'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
Table of ContentsThe 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.
