Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe

Oxford University Press, Published 1945. Hardcover, x, 533 pp.; 23 cm; International Library of Sociology and Social Reconstruction, edited by Karl Mannheim; printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner; bibliographies to each part, index. In Acceptable condition with an Acceptable dust jacket. Ex-library. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt rule and Arbor Scientiae device on front board. Old tape residue with stains and some cloth loss at head and foot of both boards, where the jacket was once taped down. Light bumping and mild shelf wear along edges. Binding tight. Usual library markings: card pocket and circulation card on front pastedown, "Downey City Library" stamps and "No longer property of Downey City Library" withdrawal stamps (pocket card, front free endpaper verso and title page), call number in ink on title page, pencil subject note on half-title verso. Tape shadows on endpapers. Pages toned, with a few small nicks and tears along edges; otherwise unmarked. Yellow and orange dust jacket lettered in black with the series tree device in white, $9.00 price on front flap. Library label on spine, spine faded, several small nicks and tears and light creasing along edges, light soiling; pencil numbers on front flap. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. [From front flap] "Professor Schlesinger has studied and written extensively in the field of Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe. This book is an analysis of the post-war problems of democratic devolution arising from variety in social and cultural outlook, and of the limits within which such variety might be integrated by federal organization. While there is a general discussion of European Federalism, detailed analysis is restricted to those countries in the political life of which the author has participated, and with the political experience and literature of which he is well acquainted. As an Austrian who has devoted intensive study to the problems of the U.S.S.R., Professor Schlesinger has given a central place to the problem of the multi-national state." Schlesinger (1901-1969) grew up in Vienna, was a Communist Party member in Austria and then Germany until his expulsion from the KPD in 1937, and reached Britain in April 1939. From 1948 he taught at the University of Glasgow, where he co-founded and edited the journal Soviet Studies with Jack Miller. Contents: Preface; Part I. Introduction: The Historical Background; The Forces of Centralisation and Decentralisation; Some Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Part II. Federalism in Modern Germany: Nineteenth-Century German Democracy and Federalism; Bismarck's Empire and the 1918 Revolution; Struggle of Centralist and Federalist Forces in the Establishment and Operation of the Weimar Constitution; The Working and the End of Weimar Federalism; Part III. The Former Austrian Territories: Attempts at Federation During the 1848-9 Revolution; Later Attempts at Federalist Reconstruction in Austria-Hungary; Austrian Republican Federalism: Its Social Basis and Constitutional Foundations; Operation and Destruction of Austrian Democratic Federalism; Autonomist and Federalist Tendencies in Czechoslovakia; Part IV. Federalism in the U.S.S.R.: Development and Constitutional Organisation of Soviet Federalism; Centralism and Federalism in the Practice of the Soviet Government; Part V. International Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Post-1919 Plans for a Danubian Federation; Pan-European Propaganda and Hitler's "New Order"; Problems of Post-War Planning; Part VI. Central and East European Experience and the Problem of Federalism: Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism; Federalism and Social Order; Federalism and the Multi-National State; Continental Experience and Projects of International Federalism; Index. …