An extremely useful and much needed survey. Over eleven chapters authors from eight countries
cover the complex history of migration from the perspective of Central and Eastern Europe
between 1945 and 1993. Following in the footsteps of Klaus Bade's Encyclopedia of European
Migrations the authors make extensive use of sources in national languages while providing an
extensive overview of population movements in the region between the Baltic Black and
Adriatic Seas. The individual chapters shed light on phenomena overlooked in other volumes
including individual state reactions to various migratory phenomenon and the political
economic and ideological consequences of human movement. The chapters of this volume are
uniform not only in their informative nature but also in suggesting new pathways for in-depth
research. Adam Walaszek Jagiellonian University Kraków Poland Eastern Europe is an
emblematic space of mobility and its Cold War history cannot be told without considering
migration from and into the countries of the region. This volume comes at a timely moment and
provides a uniquely comprehensive account full with useful information for further research.
It will be a must-read both for migration studies scholars and for area specialists. Ulf
Brunnbauer Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies Regensburg Germany The
Handbook is a gift to students of migration on three counts. It gathers the expertise of
scholars fluent in the languages - and familiar with the archives - of Eastern and Central
Europe. Thus it brings the multi-layered and complex histories of movement beyond the flat
descriptor of Soviet bloc or Eastern European migrations. The Handbook is both rich and lucid
presenting in-depth materials on the European twentieth-century on one hand and organizing
each chapter in a similar way offering the reader transparently comparable histories. From
Estonia south to Albania and from the USSR west to the GDR each chapter elucidates a complex
migration history distinguished by national politics ethnic composition and economics -
moving from the cataclysmic impacts of World War II to the international migrations and
politics of Cold War movement as well as the politics of Cold War emigrants themselves. Each
chapter ends with an epilogue on post-1989 international migrations and a valuable addendum on
published and archival sources. Finally the Handbook models the kind of high quality work
produced by international scholarly cooperation at its best. Leslie Page Moch Michigan State
University Table of contents Introduction (Anna Mazurkiewicz) Albania (Agata Domachowska)
Baltic States: Estonia Latvia and Lithuania (Pauli Heikkilä) Bulgaria (Detelina Dineva)
Czechoslovakia (Michael Cude and Ellen Paul) Germany (Bethany Hicks) Hungary (Katalin Kádár
Lynn) Poland (Slawomir Lukasiewicz) Romania (Beatrice Scutaru) Ukraine (Anna Fin) USSR (Alexey
Antoshin) Yugoslavia (Brigitte Le Normand)
