The establishment of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, 1944-1949 / edited by Norman Naimark and Leonid Gibianskii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

War as revolution / Jan Gross -- The CPSU, the Comintern, and the Bulgarians / Yelena Valeva -- The Soviet leadership and Southeastern Europe / Vladimir Volkov -- Postwar Hungary, 1944-1946 / Bela Zhelitski -- Bandits and reactionaries : the suppression of the opposition in Poland, 1944-1946 / John Micgiel -- The Soviet administrators and their German "friends" / Alexei Filitov -- The Gomulka alternative : the untravelled road / Inessa Iazhborovskaia -- Polish workers and the Stalinist transformation / Padraic Kenney -- Peasants and partisans : a dubious alliance / Melissa Bokovoy --Communist higher education policies in Czechoslovakia, Poland, and East Germany / John Connelly -- Censorship in Soviet-occupied Germany / David Pike -- The Czech road to Communism / Igor Lukes -- The Marshall Plan, Soviet-American relations, and the division of Europe / Scott Parrish -- The Soviet-Yugoslav split and the Cominform / Leonid Gibianskii.