Description
Book SynopsisThis 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 an
Table of Contents
Part 1: The Balkan Peninsula from Graeco-Roman Times to the First World War Part 2: East Central Europe from the Roman Period to the First World War Part 3: From National Self-determination to Fascism and the Holocaust: the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1918–45 Part 4: In the Shadow of Yalta: The Communist-Dominated Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945–89 Part 5: Post-Communist Transformations
