A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change

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Routledge, Sep 12, 2007 - History - 720 pages

This welcome second edition of A History of Eastern Europe provides a thematic historical survey of the formative processes of political, social and economic change which have played paramount roles in shaping the evolution and development of the region.

Subjects covered include:

  • Eastern Europe in ancient, medieval and early modern times
  • the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Empire
  • the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours
  • rival concepts of 'Central' and 'Eastern' Europe
  • the experience and consequences of the two World Wars
  • varieties of fascism in Eastern Europe
  • the impact of Communism from the 1940s to the 1980s
  • post-Communist democratization and marketization
  • the eastward enlargement of the EU.

A History of Eastern Europe now includes two new chronologies – one for the Balkans and one for East-Central Europe – and a glossary of key terms and concepts, providing comprehensive coverage of a complex past, from antiquity to the present day.

 

Contents

Part I The Balkan Peninsula from the GraecoRoman period to the First World War
25
Part II East Central Europe from the Roman period to the First World War
131
the Balkans and East Central Europe 191845
317
the Communistdominated Balkans and East Central Europe 194589
457
Part V PostCommunist transformations
537
BIBLIOGRAPHY
623
Index
653
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Bideleux, Robert; Jeffries, Ian

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