A history of eastern Europe : crisis and change

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A history of eastern Europe : crisis and change

Robert Bideleux and Ian Jeffries

Routledge, 1997

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change is a wide-ranging single volume history of the "lands between", the lands which have lain between Germany, Italy, and the Tsarist and Soviet empires. Bideleux and Jeffries examine the problems that have bedevilled this troubled region during its imperial past, the interwar period, under fascism, under communism, and since 1989. While mainly focusing on the modern era and on the effects of ethnic nationalism, fascism and communism, the book also offers original, striking and revisionist coverage of: * ancient and medieval times * the Hussite Revolution, the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation * the legacies of Byzantium, the Ottoman Empire and the Hapsburg Empire * the rise and decline of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth * the impact of the region's powerful Russian and Germanic neighbours * rival concepts of "Central" and "Eastern" Europe * the 1920s land reforms and the 1930s Depression. Providing a thematic historical survey and analysis of the formative processes of change which have played the paramount roles in shaping the development of the region, A History of Eastern Europe itself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Crisis and Change in East-Central and South-Eastern Europe Part 1: The "Balkanization" of South-Eastern Europe, from Ancient Times to the First World War Part 2: East-Central Europe Prior to the Hapsburg Ascendancy Part 3: The Importance of Being Austria Part 4: Eastern Europe between the two World Wars Part 5: The East-West Partition of Europe Conclusion: A Faltering Return to a Mean-Spirited Europe

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  • NCID
    BA35366895
  • ISBN
    • 0415161118
    • 0415161126
  • LCCN
    97012358
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xii, 685 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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