ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|106 pages
The Balkan Peninsula from the Graeco-Roman period to the First World War
chapter 1|11 pages
The gradual ‘Balkanization’ of the Balkan Peninsula
chapter 2|5 pages
The Balkan Peninsula in the Graeco-Roman period
chapter 3|18 pages
The Byzantine ascendancy and its impact, AD 395–1204
chapter 5|6 pages
The rise of the Ottoman (Osmanli) state, 1326–1453
chapter 6|15 pages
The Balkans during the heyday of Ottoman power, 1453–1686
chapter 7|19 pages
The Balkans during the waning of Ottoman power, 1687–1921
chapter 8|13 pages
The emergence of Balkan national states, 1817–1913
chapter 9|8 pages
The cataclysmic impact of war on the Balkans, 1912–18
part II|186 pages
East Central Europe from the Roman period to the First World War
chapter 10|7 pages
The disputed ‘roots’ of East Central Europe before the tenth century AD
chapter 14|25 pages
Poland-Lithuania, 1466–1795
chapter 15|13 pages
Revolution and ‘reaction’: the Habsburg Empire, 1789–1848
chapter 16|18 pages
The ‘Revolutions of 1848’: the Habsburg Empire in crisis
chapter 19|22 pages
Life after death: partitioned Poland, 1795–1914
chapter 20|6 pages
The Austro-Hungarian road to war, 1908–14
chapter 21|11 pages
The impact of the First World War on East Central Europe
part III|140 pages
From national self-determination to fascism and the Holocaust: the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1918–45
chapter 22|14 pages
The post-1918 political order in the Balkans and East Central Europe
chapter 24|7 pages
The 1930s economic Depression and its consequences
chapter 26|8 pages
The failure of democracy
chapter 27|28 pages
The lure of fascism: towards a reinterpretation
chapter 29|39 pages
The impact of the Second World War and mass genocide, 1939–45
part IV|80 pages
In the shadow of Yalta: the Communist-dominated Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945–89
chapter 30|5 pages
The East–West partition of Europe, 1945–89
chapter 32|15 pages
‘National Communism’
chapter 33|33 pages
From the crisis of 1968 to the ‘Revolutions of 1989’
part V|86 pages
Post-Communist transformationsw
