1. Introduction: Flashpoints on the Road to 1918
2. The Interwar Failures, 1918 – 1939
3. The Second World War in Central Europe
4. Making Most of Central Europe Communist
5. Communists in Power, 1948-1988
6. 1989 – 2004: Roundtables, Streets Protests and the Long Journey Back to Europe.
7. A New Central Europe or Past as Prologue?