Federalism in central and eastern Europe / by Rudolf Schlesinger.

Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co, 1945.

PART 1: Introduction -- The Historical Background -- The Forces of Centralisation and Decentralisation -- Some Theoretical Conceptions of Federalism -- PART 2: Federalism in Modern Germany -- 19th-Century German Democracy and Fedearlism -- 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 3: The Former Austrian Territories -- Attempts at Federation During the 1848-9 Revolution -- Later Attempts at Federalist Reconstruction in Austria-Hungary -- Austrian Republic Federalism: Its Social Basis and Constitutional Foundations -- Operation and Destruction of Austrian Democratic Federalism -- Autonomist and Federalist Tendencies in Czechoslovakia -- PART 4: Federalism in the USSR -- Development and Constitutional Organisation of Soviet Federalism -- Centralism and Federalism in the Practice of the Soviet Government -- PART 5: 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 6: Central and East Europe 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.