Eastern Europe in the Postwar World Author:Thomas W. Simons As a scholar-diplomat now serving as an American Ambassador to Poland, Thomas Simons provides an history of Eastern Europe under Stalinist rule. He examines the differences among the countries and the features they shared, and to both the external and domestic factors which shaped their development. The author uses the disciplines of politics, e... more »conomics, sociology and ideology to explain how Eastern Europe bumped from crisis to crisis until the final explosion of 1989, and describes these complex developments in a style accessible to both the undergraduate and the broader reading public.« less