Analyses both the violence exerted on the societies of Central and Eastern Europe during the twentieth century by belligerent powers and authoritarian and/or totalitarian regimes and armed conflicts between ethnic, social and national groups, as well as the interaction between these two phenomena, offering the reader a comprehensive understanding of the topic in this region and time period.
Transnational in approach, it contains contributions from many historians from the region itself, making it accessible and apealing to a wide international audience.
Part of a set that constitutes a comprehensive social, political, and cultural history that covers the entire region of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe, superceding histories that focus ona particular area or theme.
