A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe: Volume II: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Short Twentieth Century' and Beyond, Part I: 19A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe, authored by an international team of researchers, offers the first ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and 250 years, it goes beyond the conventional nation centered narratives and presents a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross cultural entanglement of political ideas and discourses. Its