books.google.hu - There is probably no greater authority on the modern history of central and eastern Europe than Ivan Berend, whose previous work, "Decades of Crisis, "was hailed by critics as "masterful" and "the broadest synthesis of the modern social, economic, and cultural history of the region that we possess."...http://books.google.hu/books/about/History_Derailed.html?hl=hu&id=a9csmhIT_BQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareHistory Derailed