A History of Eastern Europe : Crisis and Change

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. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 List of maps......Page 10 List of tables......Page 11 Preface to the second edition......Page 12 Chronologies......Page 16 Chronology of Balkan history......Page 17 Chronology of East Central European history......Page 31 Abbreviations......Page 44 Introduction: Crisis and change in the Balkan Peninsula and East Central Europe......Page 46 Part I The Balkan Peninsula from the Graeco-Roman period to the First World War......Page 70 1 The gradual ‘Balkanization’ of the Balkan Peninsula......Page 72 2 The Balkan Peninsula in the Graeco-Roman period......Page 83 3 The Byzantine ascendancy and its impact, AD 395–1204......Page 88 4 The Crusades, the emergence of South Slav polities and the decline of Byzantium, 1095–1453......Page 106 5 The rise of the Ottoman (Osmanli) state, 1326–1453......Page 115 6 The Balkans during the heyday of Ottoman power, 1453–1686......Page 121 7 The Balkans during the waning of Ottoman power, 1687–1921......Page 136 8 The emergence of Balkan national states, 1817–1913......Page 155 9 The cataclysmic impact of war on the Balkans, 1912–18......Page 168 Part II East Central Europe from the Roman period to the First World War......Page 176 10 The disputed ‘roots’ of East Central Europe before the tenth century AD......Page 178 11 The apparent convergence between East Central Europe and Western Christendom, from the tenth to the sixteenth century AD......Page 185 12 The ‘parting of the ways’: the underlying divergence of East Central Europe from western Europe between the late . fteenth and late eighteenth century......Page 205 13 The emergence of Austrian Habsburg hegemony over East Central Europe, 1526–1789......Page 210 14 Poland-Lithuania, 1466–1795......Page 220 15 Revolution and ‘reaction’: the Habsburg Empire, 1789–1848......Page 245 16 The ‘Revolutions of 1848’: the Habsburg Empire in crisis......Page 258 17 The empire strikes back: counter-revolution, neo-absolutism and reform in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1849–1918......Page 276 18 Capitalism and nationalism: the seeds of social revolution and imperial disintegration in Austria-Hungary, 1867 to 1918......Page 307 19 Life after death: partitioned Poland, 1795–1914......Page 323 20 The Austro-Hungarian road to war, 1908–14......Page 345 21 The impact of the First World War on East Central Europe......Page 351 Part III From national self-determination to fascism and the Holocaust: the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1918–45......Page 362 22 The post-1918 political order in the Balkans and East Central Europe......Page 364 23 From revolution and counter-revolution to fragile stabilization and recovery, 1918–29......Page 378 24 The 1930s economic Depression and its consequences......Page 389 25 The plight of the peasantry: towards a re-evaluation of peasant poverty and aspirations......Page 396 26 The failure of democracy......Page 409 27 The lure of fascism: towards a reinterpretation......Page 417 28 The Comintern ‘theory of fascism’ and its long-neglected role in rationalizing the Communist seizures of power in 1945–8......Page 445 29 The impact of the Second World War and mass genocide, 1939–45......Page 463 Part IV In the shadow of Yalta: the Communist-dominated Balkans and East Central Europe 1945–89......Page 502 30 The East–West partition of Europe, 1945–89......Page 504 31 The emergence of Communist regimes in the Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945–60......Page 509 32 ‘National Communism’......Page 534 33 From the crisis of 1968 to the ‘Revolutions of 1989’......Page 549 Part V Post-Communist transformations......Page 582 34 Post-Communist political transformations: debunking ‘democratic transition’ and ‘democratic consolidation’......Page 584 35 Post-Communist economic transformations: from dirigiste capitalism to more liberal forms of market capitalism......Page 601 36 The ‘return to Europe’: the gradual integration of East Central European and Balkan post-Communist states into the EU and NATO......Page 619 37 Epilogue: some final reflections on the fate of modernist projects in East Central Europe and the Balkans......Page 664 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 668 Index......Page 698 The Balkan Peninsula From Graeco-roman Period To The First World War -- East Central Europe From Roman Period To The First World War -- From National Self-determination To Fascism And The Holocaust : The Balkans And East Central Europe, 1918-45 -- In The Shadow Of Yalta : The Communist-dominated Balkans And East Central Europe, 1945-89 -- Post-communist Transformations. Robert Bideleux And Ian Jeffries. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 623-652) And Index. The Balkan Peninsula from Graeco-Roman times to the First World War East Central Europe from Roman times to the First World War East Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula from 1918 to 1945 : from national self-determination to fascism and the Holocaust In the shadow of Yalta : the communist-dominated Balkans and East Central Europe, 1945-89 Post-communist transformations.