ABSTRACT
First Published in 1998. Federalism became highly fashionable among all kind of blue-printers, those who believed in the capacity of constitutional forms to solve all the fundamental issues of social life, as well as those who were on the look-out for new descriptions for rather old-fashioned political concepts just before World War II. This volume if a more thorough study of the problem s of Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe. Contribute to the study of these problems as an analysis of the 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 organisation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |46 pages
Introduction
chapter |10 pages
The Historical Background
chapter |9 pages
The Forces of Centralisation and Decentralisation
chapter |24 pages
Some Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism
part |102 pages
Federalism in Modern Germany
chapter |21 pages
Nineteenth-Century German Democracy and Federalism
chapter |21 pages
Bismarck's Empire and the 1918 Revolution
chapter |25 pages
The Working and the End of Weimar Federalism
chapter |170 pages
The Former Austrian Territories
chapter |34 pages
Attempts at Federation During the 1848–9 Revolution
chapter |65 pages
Later Attempts at Federalist Reconstruction in Austria-Hungary
chapter |18 pages
Operation and Destruction of Austrian Democratic Federalism
chapter |23 pages
Autonomist and Federalist Tendencies in Czechoslovakia
part |100 pages
Federalism In The U.S.S.R.
chapter |51 pages
Development and Constitutional Organisation of Soviet Federalism
chapter |45 pages
Centralism and Federalism in the Practice of the Soviet Government
part |68 pages
International Federalism in Central and Eastern Europe
chapter |26 pages
Post-1919 Plans for a Danubian Federation
chapter |22 pages
Pan-European Propaganda and Hitler'S “New Order”
chapter |20 pages
Problems Of Post-War Planning
part |40 pages
Central and East European Experience and the Problem of Federalism