Peasant Europe

"This classic work examines the modern history of Europe from an unusual perspective. European history has usually focussed on the urban elite and the middle classes, but before World War II more than half of the entire population of the continent was composed of rural peasants occupying a territory stretching from the Black Sea to the Baltic, forming a natural barrier between East and West. These people - Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians, Southern Slavs and others - are the focus of this book."--BOOK JACKET.