Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway.

Sabrina Ramet has assembled a team of highly respectable country specialists to offer a fresh and historiographically updated reading of interwar developments in East Central Europe. The volume is bookended by two excellent comparative and theoretically informed essays carefully weighing the multiplicity of factors contributing to the instability of the interwar regimes. As a result this survey succeeds admirably in producing a nuanced narrative and analysis.Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USASabrina Ramet, together with a roster of other eminent scholars, has produced an exciting new history of interwar East Central Europe. The volume has a clear focus on the failure of democracy (1918 to 1941), and on the bedeviling issues of ethnic minorities and of peasants; the latter made up an overwhelming majority of much of the region's population. The book will be of great interest to political scientists and historians of East Central Europe, and of Europe more generally, and it is perfect for classroom use.Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh, USA...the strength of this collection is that its contributions are written by experts who speak the languages ​​of the countries they discuss, an that numerous recent sources are drawn upon.Nikica Barić, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Casopis za suvremenu povjest (Journal of Contemporary History)

• Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The failure of democracy-building, the fate of minorities – An introduction Interwar Poland: The geopolitics of failure Interwar Czechoslovakia – a national state for a multi-ethnic population Interwar Hungary: Democratization and the Fate of Minorities Interwar Romania: Enshrining ethnic privilege Interwar Bulgaria: populism, authoritarianism, and ethnic minorities The Kingdom of Diversity and Paternalism: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, 1918-1941 Interwar Albania The Peasantries and Peasant Parties of East Central Europe Afterword

Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway.

Sabrina Ramet has assembled a team of highly respectable country specialists to offer a fresh and historiographically updated reading of interwar developments in East Central Europe. The volume is bookended by two excellent comparative and theoretically informed essays carefully weighing the multiplicity of factors contributing to the instability of the interwar regimes. As a result this survey succeeds admirably in producing a nuanced narrative and analysis.Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USASabrina Ramet, together with a roster of other eminent scholars, has produced an exciting new history of interwar East Central Europe. The volume has a clear focus on the failure of democracy (1918 to 1941), and on the bedeviling issues of ethnic minorities and of peasants; the latter made up an overwhelming majority of much of the region's population. The book will be of great interest to political scientists and historians of East Central Europe, and of Europe more generally, and it is perfect for classroom use.Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh, USA...the strength of this collection is that its contributions are written by experts who speak the languages ​​of the countries they discuss, an that numerous recent sources are drawn upon.Nikica Barić, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Casopis za suvremenu povjest (Journal of Contemporary History)

• Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The failure of democracy-building, the fate of minorities – An introduction Interwar Poland: The geopolitics of failure Interwar Czechoslovakia – a national state for a multi-ethnic population Interwar Hungary: Democratization and the Fate of Minorities Interwar Romania: Enshrining ethnic privilege Interwar Bulgaria: populism, authoritarianism, and ethnic minorities The Kingdom of Diversity and Paternalism: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, 1918-1941 Interwar Albania The Peasantries and Peasant Parties of East Central Europe Afterword

Sabrina P. Ramet is Professor Emerita of Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), in Trondheim, Norway.

Sabrina Ramet has assembled a team of highly respectable country specialists to offer a fresh and historiographically updated reading of interwar developments in East Central Europe. The volume is bookended by two excellent comparative and theoretically informed essays carefully weighing the multiplicity of factors contributing to the instability of the interwar regimes. As a result this survey succeeds admirably in producing a nuanced narrative and analysis.Maria Todorova, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USASabrina Ramet, together with a roster of other eminent scholars, has produced an exciting new history of interwar East Central Europe. The volume has a clear focus on the failure of democracy (1918 to 1941), and on the bedeviling issues of ethnic minorities and of peasants; the latter made up an overwhelming majority of much of the region's population. The book will be of great interest to political scientists and historians of East Central Europe, and of Europe more generally, and it is perfect for classroom use.Irina Livezeanu, University of Pittsburgh, USA...the strength of this collection is that its contributions are written by experts who speak the languages ​​of the countries they discuss, an that numerous recent sources are drawn upon.Nikica Barić, University of Zagreb, Croatia, Casopis za suvremenu povjest (Journal of Contemporary History)

• Interwar East Central Europe, 1918-1941: The failure of democracy-building, the fate of minorities – An introduction Interwar Poland: The geopolitics of failure Interwar Czechoslovakia – a national state for a multi-ethnic population Interwar Hungary: Democratization and the Fate of Minorities Interwar Romania: Enshrining ethnic privilege Interwar Bulgaria: populism, authoritarianism, and ethnic minorities The Kingdom of Diversity and Paternalism: the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/Yugoslavia, 1918-1941 Interwar Albania The Peasantries and Peasant Parties of East Central Europe Afterword