Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Part One The Time of Estate Order 1. A General View on the History of Eastern Europe 2. Poland until World War II 3. Czechoslovakia until World War II 4. Hungary until World War II 5. Romania until World War II Part Two From Estate to Class Order 6. The Peasantry 7. The Nobility and the Bourgeoisie 8. From the Proletariat to the Working Class 9. The Intelligentsia Part Three The Period of Destruction 10. The Effects of World War II on Social Structure 11. Structural Changes Introduced by the Imported Revolutions Index

About the Author

Aleksander Gella is Professor of Sociology at State University of New York, Buffalo.

Reviews

"To my knowledge, this book gives the first synthetic sociological analysis of the complicated social structure of selected countries in Eastern Europe. The analysis itself is penetrating, the text dense and succinct...and the argumentation presented is clear and convincing." - A. Podgorecki, University of Pennsylvania "Gella relates different national experiences and correlates what happens to classes in a new and significant way." - Thomas Blakeley, Boston College