A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change

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