Bernd Rechel

The author:

Bernd Rechel, PhD (Birmingham 2006), is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His publications include papers in Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, and Nationalities Papers.

The foreword author:

Richard Crampton is Professor Emeritus of East European History and Fellow of St. Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford.