Power and the people : a social history of central European politics, 1945-56

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