East Central Europe and Communism

Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.

Sabrina P. Ramet is a Professor Emerita at the Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU). She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at UCLA in 1981. She is the author of 15 previous scholarly books, including Alternatives to Democracy in Twentieth-Century Europe: Collectivist Visions of Modernity (Central European University Press, 2019).

1. Communism's Unintended Consequences:  An Introduction. 2. The Soviet bloc, 1944-1956. 3. The Soviet bloc, 1956-1980 4. The Soviet bloc, 1980-1989/90. 5. Socialist Mavericks: Yugoslavia and Albania, 1943-1991. 6. Epitaph.