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Product Description: This collection of essays provides insight into seminal events in 20th century international relations, with a focus on communist and post-communist countries such as Russia and China as well as the States of East-Central Europe. Essays in the book include; Thinking about Russia, or What should have been done? A tribute to the role of ideas and economics in policy making; British war-time perception of Soviet intentions in Eastern Europe; to the Disintegration of Yugoslavia: Reflections on its causes in a tentative comparison with Austria-Hungary...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)