Melissa Feinberg is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Curtain of Lies: The Battle over Truth in Stalinist Eastern Europe and Elusive Equality: Gender, Citizenship and the Limits of Democracy in Czechoslovakia, 1918-1950.

Communism in Eastern Europe is a ground-breaking new survey of the history of Eastern Europe since 1945. It examines how Communist governments came to Eastern Europe, how they changed their societies and the legacies that persisted after their fall.

List of Maps / List of Figures / Preface / Introduction: The Communist World of Eastern Europe / 1. Communism Comes to Eastern Europe / 2. Creating a Stalinist Society / 3. Socialist Modernity in the 1950s and 1960s / 4. Reform and Retrenchment, 1956-1968 / 5. Consumerism and its Consequences during Late Socialism / 6. Decade of Crisis / 7. From Communism to Neoliberalism / 8. Eastern Europe in the 21st Century / Index