Table of Contents

Introduction; (Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii.); War as Revolution; (Jan Gross.); The CPSU, the Comintern, and the Bulgarians; (Yelena Valeva.); The Soviet Leadership and Southeastern Europe; (Vladimir Volkov.); Postwar Hungary, 19441946; (Bela Zhelitski.); Bandits and Reactionaries: The Suppression of the Opposition in Poland, 19441946; (John Micgiel.); The Soviet Administrators and Their German Friends; (Alexei Filitov.); The Gomulka Alternative: The Untravelled Road; (Inessa Iazhborovskaia, translated by Anna M. Cienciala.); Polish Workers and the Stalinist Transformation; (Padraic Kenney.); Peasants and Partisans: A Dubious Alliance; (Melissa Bokovoy.); Communist Higher Education Policies in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany; (John Connelly.); Censorship in Soviet-Occupied Germany; (David Pike.); The Czech Road to Communism; (Igor Lukes.); The Marshall Plan, Soviet-American Relations, and the Division of Europe; (Scott Parrish.); The Soviet-Yugoslav Split and the Cominform; (L. Gibianskii.).

About the Author

David Holloway is professor of political science and codirector of the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University. Norman Naimark is professor of history and director of the Center for Russian and East European Studies at Stanford University.