Mark Pittaway was Senior Lecturer in European Studies at the Open University, UK. His books include Globalization and Europe (2003), The Fluid Borders of Europe (2003) and the posthumous collection of essays, From the Vanguard to the Margins: Workers in Hungary, 1939 to the Present (2015), edited by Adam Fabry.

'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