A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and ChangePsychology Press, 1998 - 685 pages A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Changeis 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 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 Europeitself will play a paramount role in the studies of European historians. |
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... kingdom of Hungary vii ix xiii 1 35 37 42 62 82 97 109 111 114 189 212 7 The kingdom of Bohemia and the Hussite heritage Part III East Central Europe during the Habsburg ascendancy INTRODUCTION TO PART III : THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ...
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Contents
from ancient | 35 |
national states | 97 |
THE DISPUTED ROOTS | 111 |
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING | 265 |
The rise of the Habsburg Empire | 275 |
East Central Europe and the revolutions of 184849 | 294 |
18491914 | 332 |
Capitalism and the seeds of social revolution in Austria and Hungary | 354 |
The failure of democracy | 458 |
The lure of fascism | 467 |
Fascism and the communists new road to power in Europe | 497 |
Eastern Europe since the Second | 517 |
The Second World War and the expansion of communist power | 524 |
National roads to socialism | 545 |
From the crisis of 1968 to the Revolutions of 1989 | 562 |
the triple transition | 590 |
War nationalism and imperial disintegration | 375 |
THE NEW POLITICAL ORDER | 407 |
The aftermath of the First World War | 422 |
The 1930s Depression and its consequences | 435 |
The plight of the peasantry | 443 |
what is to be done? | 608 |
Conclusion | 620 |
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