A Political and Economic Dictionary of Central and South‐Eastern Europe

This dictionary is a companion to the Political and Economic Dictionary of Eastern Europe (RR 2008/052) and follows the same pattern. Its geographical coverage is wider than one might expect from the title, stretching from the Baltic States to those of the Balkans and including all 19 European countries east of Germany except those already covered in the earlier work. It is a commentary on the revolutions of our times that 12 of them did not exist as independent countries in 1990. The anomalous Russian exclave of Kaliningrad is also included.

The dictionary comprises about 500 entries on countries,...