Books published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG

Compares the political changes of 1989-90 in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and Hungary. This title focuses on the conditions of transition, on the state of the autocracies at the end of their rule, on the specificity of the system change and, finally, on the phase of the establishment of democracy.

Does Germany and Europe still have a social formation that continues the tradition of the bourgeoisie after the civil era? This title examines fields of expertise, which were characterised as bourgeois in 19th century research.