First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The Historical Background; Chapter 2 The Forces of Centralisation and Decentralisation; Chapter 3 Some Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Part 2 Federalism in Modern Germany; Chapter 4 Nineteenth-Century German Democracy and Federalism; Chapter 5 Bismarck's Empire and the 1918 Revolution; Chapter 6 Struggle of Centralist and Federalist Forces in the Establishment and Operation of the Weimar Constitution; Chapter 7 The Working and the End of Weimar Federalism; Part 3 The Former Austrian Territories; Chapter 8 Attempts at Federation During the 1848-9 Revolution; Chapter 9 Later Attempts at Federalist Reconstruction in Austria-Hungary; Chapter 10 Austrian Republican Federalism: Its Social Basis and Constitutional Foundations; Chapter 11 Operation and Destruction of Austrian Democratic Federalism; Chapter 12 Autonomist and Federalist Tendencies in Czechoslovakia; Part 4 Federalism In The U.S.S.R.; Chapter 13 Development and Constitutional Organisation of Soviet Federalism; Chapter 14 Centralism and Federalism in the Practice of the Soviet Government; Part 5 International Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe; Chapter 15 Post-1919 Plans for a Danubian Federation; Chapter 16 Pan-European Propaganda and Hitler'S "New Order"; Chapter 17 Problems Of Post-War Planning; Part 6 Central and East European Experience and the Problem of Federalism; Chapter 18 Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Chapter 19 Federalism and Social Order; Chapter 20 Federalism and the Multi-National State; Chapter 21 Continental Experience and The Projects of International Federalism;