Abstract
A monograph "Changes of Political Map After 1945 deals with a specific range of anomalous political units - the so called quasi-states. They represent an unfavourable anomaly in the political space after 1945 which, according to conventional wisdom deemed to be divided between the territories of sovereign states.
The international community approach follows from it to their existence but it is strongly differentiated with respect to their heterogeneity. The monograph in its theoretical chapters focuses on the precise definition of terms of sovereignty, sovereign and quasi-state, which definition is in the current environment of political science the subject of academic debate.
For this reason the monograph mentions the term quasi-state in different conceptions and subsequently suggests its own definiton of the quasi-state, which allows the elimination of terminological confusion. The monograph brings unique and complex survey of quasi-state without international recognition or internal sovereigntych emerged on the political map after 1945.