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- ISBN 9781041398066
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Originally published in 1975, this book presents a lucid and comprehensive account of the political history of the different states of Eastern Europe, from the collapse of the Eastern monarchies of Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary up to the Second World War. The author traces the history of six countries in the interwar period: Poland, Hungary, Austria, Romania, and the former Yugoslavia and democratic Czechoslovakia. Particular emphasis is placed on the economic and social problems of those nations and on the question of national minorities. The epilogue brings events up to the date of publication.
Antony Polonsky is Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and Chief Historian of Global Education Outreach Project of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw. He is co-chair of the editorial board of Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry, author of Politics in Independent Poland (1972), The Little Dictators (1975), The Great Powers and the Polish Question (1976), co-author of A History of Modern Poland (1980) and The Beginnings of Communist Rule in Poland (1981) and co-editor of Contemporary Jewish writing in Poland: an anthology (2001) and The neighbors respond: the controversy over the Jedwabne Massacre in Poland (2004).
His most recent work is The Jews in Poland and Russia volume 1, 1350 to 1881; volume 2 1881 to 1914; volume 3, 1914 to 2008 (Liverpool University Press, 2010, 2012), published in 2013 in an abridged version The Jews in Poland and Russia. A Short History (2014), which has been translated into French, Polish and Lithuanian.
