Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe since World War II

258pp. Quarter-bound in cream cloth over blue paper-covered boards, metallic blue titles on spine. 8vo. Lightly rubbed spine heel. Text block edges starting to fox and tan. Cloth around joints foxing. Free endpapers just starting to tan. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. Written in the 1980s, it offers a country by country account of the widespread political malaise in East Central Europe providing an insightful discussion of the Solidarity movement of Poland, a lucid analysis of Titoism in Yugoslavia, and a thorough review of Soviet policy toward the area under all leaders since the second world war.