J. F. Brown has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and American University in Bulgaria. His numerous books include Eastern Europe and Communist Rule, Surge to Freedom, and Hopes and Shadows, all published by Duke University Press.

“I read this very fine book with pleasure and profit. Let us hope this is not, as he insists, Brown’s last book on Eastern Europe. Both lively and wise, it is a distillation of a lifetime of insights from one of the most brilliant observers of East Central Europe.”-Robert Hutchings, Princeton University “J. F. Brown’s The Grooves of Change is a lucid, well-written overview of developments in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. In addition to its sweeping scope, it illuminates the minority problems that have plagued Eastern Europe and have played such an important-and often disruptive-role in East European politics.”-F. Stephen Larrabee, RAND

• List of Maps Preface 1. Coming into Being 2. Communist Rule: La Longue DurÉe 3. Economics 1945–2000: Behemoth 4. Democracy: Stumbling Forward 5. Country Profiles: Facing the Future 6. The First Yugoslav War: Serbs, Bosnians, Croats 7. Kosovo: The Clash of Two Nationalisms 8. Key Minorities and Key Questions 9. Looking Outward and Inward 10. The Last Word: Urgency Notes Index

J. F. Brown has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and American University in Bulgaria. His numerous books include Eastern Europe and Communist Rule, Surge to Freedom, and Hopes and Shadows, all published by Duke University Press.

“I read this very fine book with pleasure and profit. Let us hope this is not, as he insists, Brown’s last book on Eastern Europe. Both lively and wise, it is a distillation of a lifetime of insights from one of the most brilliant observers of East Central Europe.”-Robert Hutchings, Princeton University “J. F. Brown’s The Grooves of Change is a lucid, well-written overview of developments in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. In addition to its sweeping scope, it illuminates the minority problems that have plagued Eastern Europe and have played such an important-and often disruptive-role in East European politics.”-F. Stephen Larrabee, RAND

• List of Maps Preface 1. Coming into Being 2. Communist Rule: La Longue DurÉe 3. Economics 1945–2000: Behemoth 4. Democracy: Stumbling Forward 5. Country Profiles: Facing the Future 6. The First Yugoslav War: Serbs, Bosnians, Croats 7. Kosovo: The Clash of Two Nationalisms 8. Key Minorities and Key Questions 9. Looking Outward and Inward 10. The Last Word: Urgency Notes Index

J. F. Brown has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and American University in Bulgaria. His numerous books include Eastern Europe and Communist Rule, Surge to Freedom, and Hopes and Shadows, all published by Duke University Press.

“I read this very fine book with pleasure and profit. Let us hope this is not, as he insists, Brown’s last book on Eastern Europe. Both lively and wise, it is a distillation of a lifetime of insights from one of the most brilliant observers of East Central Europe.”-Robert Hutchings, Princeton University “J. F. Brown’s The Grooves of Change is a lucid, well-written overview of developments in Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. In addition to its sweeping scope, it illuminates the minority problems that have plagued Eastern Europe and have played such an important-and often disruptive-role in East European politics.”-F. Stephen Larrabee, RAND

• List of Maps Preface 1. Coming into Being 2. Communist Rule: La Longue DurÉe 3. Economics 1945–2000: Behemoth 4. Democracy: Stumbling Forward 5. Country Profiles: Facing the Future 6. The First Yugoslav War: Serbs, Bosnians, Croats 7. Kosovo: The Clash of Two Nationalisms 8. Key Minorities and Key Questions 9. Looking Outward and Inward 10. The Last Word: Urgency Notes Index