Iván T. Berend and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974. 402 pp. $18.00

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BOOK REVIEWS COMPTES RENDUS Iván T. Berend and György Ránki, Economic Development in East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries. New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1974. 402 pp. $18.00. At the start of this ambitious work, Hungary's leading economic historians define "East- Central Europe" to include not only the Habsburg lands and the successor states but also Poland, Russia and Southeastern Europe save Greece. Hence the interest to readers of this journal. Professors Berend and Rinki deserve high praise for writing from Marxist first principles without the stock phrases and schematic analysis that have marred much of