General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.J. Kirschbaum Legitimacy and Myth in Central and Eastern Europe; P. Longworth Community, Memory and Law in Medieval Poland; P. G¿ci Boundary Delimitation in Medieval Poland; G. Mysliwski The Construction and Deconstruction of Nineteenth-century Polish Liberalism; B.A. Porter T.G. Masaryk's Nov¿vropa : A Reinterpretation; F. Leoncini Czechoslovakia and the Anti-Hitler Emigrants, 1933-39; F. Hahn Polonia and Polish Emigration in Polish Communist Propaganda; A. Reczy¿ The Communist 'Polonia' Society and Polish Communities in the West; J. Lencznarowicz V¿av Havel and the Ideal of Democracy; M.L. Neudorfl The Social and Political Contributions of Theatre to the 1989 Czechoslovak Revolution; J. Savin Trade Union Configurations and Transformation Policy in Poland and Hungary; R. Deppe & M. Tatur Tripartism in Slovakia; Actors and Strategies; M. Camb¿kov¿ocial Partnership in the Czech Republic; Z.Mansfeldov¿ederalism and Nationalism in Yugoslavia; R.A. Remington Index

This valuable collection of essays makes a scholarly contribution to our knowledge of Central and Eastern European history. With ground-breaking contributions from international scholars such as Philip Longworth and Piotr Gorecki, this volume is an essential text for anyone studying or generally interested in understanding the development of the post-Communist world.

MONIKA CAMBALIKOVA Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
RAINER DEPPE Sociologist, Institut für Sozialforschung an der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
PIOTR GORECKI Associate Professor of History, University of California, Riverside
FRED HAHN Professor Emeritus of History, College of New Jersey, Trenton, New Jersey
JAN LENCZNAROWICZ Assistant Professor of History, Jagiellonian University, Polonia Institute, Cracow, Poland
FRANCESCO LEONCINI Professor of Slavic History, Università Ca'Foscari di Venezia, Venice, Italy
PHILIP LONGWORTH Professor of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
ZDENKA MANSFELDOVA Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
GRZEGORZ MYSLIWSKI Associate Professor, Historical Institute of the University of Warsaw, Poland
MARIE L. NEUDORFL freelance historian of Modern European History, Ottawa, Canada
BRIAN A. PORTER Assistant Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
ANNA RECZYNSKA Assistant Professor of History, Jagiellonian University, Polonia Institute, Cracow, Poland
ROBIN ALISON REMINGTON Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia
JANET SAVIN independent scholar
MELANIE TATUR Professor of Political Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany