Political, economic, and social turmoil seem to be an integral part in the history of East Central Europe. This has been an area of constant change for hundreds of years. As with all changes, one, and historians especially so, tries to determine the causes which precipitated the events that had such a profound political, economic, social, and/or geographical effect. There have been many such instances in the history of East Central Europe. One of the more recent of these events was World War I and especially the peace treaty following the ....