12972 Barnes & Noble Books New York, NY, U.S.A. 1977 Reprint Edition Dust Jacket Near Fine Hard Cover Near Fine Black cloth on boards. Now in clear cover. "A major theme of the book is to analyse events in eastern Europe in order to discover if the move towards communism was due to local forces or whether it was due to Soviet machinations. Why did communist parties in countries in which there was no Soviet military presence fail to take power? Why did Czechoslovakia with no Soviet troops in the country go communist while Finland militarily dominated by the Soviet Union did not? Why was the path to communism in Hungary and Czechoslovakia so different from that in Romania and Bulgaria? Why did the communists in a very favorable position in 1944, fail to take power in Greece? Is it possible to discern a master plan conceived in Moscow which unravels itself in eastern Europe? Is the key to Soviet postwar policy to be found in her policy towards German? Was it only after she found that Great Britain and the United States had become intractibile that she began to communise East Germany? Would a much less aggressive Soviet posture not have secured greater rewards in the short as well as the long terms in Europe? The essays in this book attempt to answer these and many other fascinating questions of the immediate postwar era. The are of pressing relevance today, in the aftermath of Helsinki, when detente is abroad and East is attempting to again meet West. These essays will illuminate the origins of the cold war and the reader will be able to draw his own conclusions about the feasibility of the detente $22.00USD
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