Gati Charles. The Bloc That Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transition

Indiana University Press, 1990. — 244 p.Professor Gati is uniquely qualified to understand and give perspective to the impact of perestroika and Soviet 'new thinking' on the events in Eastern Europe. A superb synthesis of the postwar evolution of Soviet-East European relations and the first up-to-date analysis of the revolutionary events in that part of the world in 1989. An up-to-date and lucid overview of the troubled course of Soviet-East European relations at time of momentous change in the Soviet bloc. This book is written in a lively style and is a good scholarly synthesis of the post-Second World War evolution of Soviet-East European relations ending in the revolutionary events of 1989.