Pelicans ISBN 0 14 02.1712 6 - A History of the People's Democracies Eastern Europe Since Stalin

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Histoire des démocraties populaires: après Staline first published 1969 This translation first published by Pall Mall Press 1971 Published in Pelican Books with a new second epilogue 1974 Copyright © Éditions du Seuil, Paris, 1969 Translation copyright © Pall Mall Press Ltd, 1971 Second epilogue copyright © François Fejtö, 1974

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