A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present : Modernisation, Ideology and Nationality /
"Why is Eastern Europe still different from Western Europe, more than a quarter-century after the collapse of Communism? A History of Eastern Europe 1918 to the Present shows how the roots of this difference are based in Eastern Europe's tortured 20th century. Eastern Europe emerged in 191...
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London, UK ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2021
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Table of Contents:
- The Making of "Eastern Europe"
- Melting-Pot: Eastern Europe in the First World War
- A New Europe? The Peace Settlement 1918-23
- Problems of the Interwar Period
- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Communism
- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Conservative Authoritarianism
- Test-Tube of Ideologies: Fascism
- The East European Origins of the Second World War
- Hell's Kitchen: Eastern Europe in the Second World War
- War as Revolution: Political Consequences of the Second World War
- Great Leap Backwards: The Imposition of Communism 1944-48
- National Communism vs. Stalinism
- The Perils of De-Stalinisation: Poland and Hungary in 1956
- Last-Chance Saloon? The Prague Spring of
- Absurdistan, or 'Real Existing Socialism' 1968-1980s
- The Solidarity Phenomenon in Poland 1980-89
- The Bear Vanishes: Gorbachev and the Roots of Revolution 1985-89
- The Power of the Powerless: The Velvet Revolutions of 1989
- The Wages of Nationalism: Soviet, Yugoslav and Czech-Slovak Break-Up
- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Post-Communist Modernisation
- Eastern Europe in the 21st Century: Nationalism and Geopolitics
- Conclusion: Retirement of a Concept?