Vojtech Mastny

Introduction The historic changes that took place at the end of the eighties and the beginning of the nineties made their effects felt not only in Central and Eastern Europe but throughout the international system. With the end to a world system based on bipolarity and confrontation between East...

Preface This book has been in the making for a long time. It has given its author the extraordinary experience of having lived through the events it describes and then being able to study them from the inside evidence as Soviet and other communist archives opened their doors. The price of that...