When the communist governments in central and eastern Europe collapsed in 1989/91, there was a revived interest in a region that had been largely neglected by western geographers. This text draws on the resulting work and other original theoretical and empirical sources to describe, interpret and explain the place and spatial order of modernities in Central and Eastern Europe since 1920, to give a theoretically underpinned, regional geography of the area.
When the communist governments in central and eastern Europe collapsed in 1989/91, there was a revived interest in a region that had been largely negl...