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First published online July, 1987

Reviews : Antoni Maçzak,Henryk Samsonowicz and Peter Burke,eds.,East Central Europe in Transition: From the Fourteenth to the Seventeenth Century,Cambridge,Cambridge University Press/Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,1985;207pp;£22.50. Edward C. Thaden,Russia's Western Borderlands,1710-1870,Princeton,Princeton University Press,1984;xi + 278pp;no price given. Béla K. Király,ed.,The Crucial Decade: East Central European Society and National Defense,1859-1870,New York,Columbia University Press for East European Monographs,1984;xv + 633pp;US$52.00